TTS
Had an idea that would require learning how to utilize AI for text-to-speech projects, but I had to learn some things first. There's an Nvidia-specific application which sounded fun (Tachatron 2), but the RTX4090 is Ada Lovelace architecture and the app only supports Volta, Turing, and Ampere and the next one which looked interesting was ESPnet, which appears to work best on linux. So I fired up the old desktop (the one with the RTX3070) but I had to replace a brand new monitor that went out after only two months of use (ugh), then patch and upgrade the operating system since its been so long since I've powered it on.
Really only three tasks left: Figure out how to install all the inane prerequisites using incomprehensible GitHub links which don't tell you *where* to put stuff so everything can work together, try to start and run the damn thing, and (if all that works), figure out how to actually use the application. Which reminds me, since this is text-to-speech, I probably ought to hook up some sort of audio output device to the linux box.
