Video Beagle

One big problem here is "what country sets regulations and what countries follow them". Even allied countries differ on these sorts of things, and if one country has severe limits, and another doesn't...doctor and patients just go there.
 
 
 
The 2nd pill costs cents to produce. The first costs millions or billions.
 
 
Well, it's also run by heartless psychopaths.
 
 
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,,,,why are we getting sources reports? If this guy is a youtuber, shouldn't we know what he says?

THIS
I wish everyone on the internet would do a little reading on the difference...it's even in the names..
TRADEMARK _ marks used in trade
COPYRIGHT .. the right to copy content

Those are some fascinating figures.. I'd like to see @LinusTechor  @GabenJr  @James or @CPotter do a video exploring them.

For context, non-GAAP gross margin for some companies taken off official results where possible, didn't see an Apple one so data is indirect:
AMD: 53% Q1 2022
Apple: 43% Q1 2022 (unsure if GAAP or not)
Intel: 55.4% Q4 2021
nvidia: 67.0% Q4 FY22
 
Gross margin is the nearest thing we have to a profit measure, and simplified it is (revenue - cost of goods) / revenue. If you sell something that costs $1 to make at $2, that's 50% gross margin. Somewhere in the ball park of 50% is decent for a decent volume tech company. I would have expected Apple to be higher, but then again, maybe their products do cost more to make as a proportion of their selling price. Cost of goods I'm not sure the exact definition of, but it more directly relates to manufacturing only. Like Material/BOM cost, not sure if it includes transformation costs. Things like facilities, R&D, staff wont come under that. So if the GM sounds high, it is paying for all that other stuff too.
 
GAAP numbers are the official ones required and take everything into consideration. Non-GAAP generally focuses more on the core business and excludes exceptional costs, and may better represent the business functioning.

i got a pi 3..and a pi zero..unused..sitting in my project box..for a good couple of years now and the likelyhood of getting around to using them is low..,,definitly should look at passing it along if the prices are good..

seriously?  .......i'm thinking maybe I should give ebay a looksee..

My mom lost her voice in her last year. I can't even remember what he voice sounded like before it got all hoarse and barely audible and the only recording I have of her, were from after she started losing it. Would've been nice to have this tech at the time, I can only hope it helps people in the future.

... Honestly I would like that. 
I have a few phone recordings with my mom's voice on them. Would love to be able to hear "her" one more time now that she's been gone for over 2 years.

A minute of audio is not sufficient. Basically from the way TTS has been evolving, you need either
A) 1000 hours of "any" recordings, in any language. The end result is the kind of voice you hear out of Microsoft, Google and Amazon Polly's non-neural voices, basically the average of all sampled recordings. Good enough if you like that 16khz nasally TTS type voice
B) 20 hours of specific recordings, in one language and accent. The end result is the kind of voice Microsoft, Google and Amazon Polly have for neural voices, but the original back-ends of these voices are all based on libritts/ljspeech/VCTK/etc, basically stuff that already exists, and hence why the voices all sound similar and contain no emotional inflections. The output from Amazon Polly at least is 24khz. However Amazon Polly's voices are used frequently and are easily identified by others.
C) 10 hours of a single subject, in one language and accent. The end result can range from awful to reasonably "good enough" to sound like a human until you tell it a joke and it can't laugh.
D) B or C, plus a style-transfer 
 
So if you have 20 hours of someone's voice, or 10 hours of a someone's voice in a specific tone/accent you can style transfer over that voice. This is how you get "bringing back dead people" using only existing samples of their voice. That said, it doesn't work that well. 
 
Regardless of how the TTS voice is trained. No TTS voice can do the following:
1. Laugh
2. Cry
3. Scream
4. React shockingly
5. Yell/raise their voice
6. Whisper
7. Take on a falsetto
8. Sing*
 
This is because the underlying LibriTTS/LJSpeech/VCTK does not contain this data, and likewise CMUDICT does not contain phonemes to do so. In order to have any of these things, there needs to be a way for CMUDICT to indicate something is a "sound" not intended to be read, but still vocalized with different volumes, pitches, and/or speeds. If someone is trying to go "oh-hoh-hoh-ho-ho!" or "yippiee" writing it out is only going to come out as though someone was reading it in the same way you'd read "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy brown dog."
 
Singing, is an entirely different kind of training. A Singing TTS (eg Vocaloid) can not actually speak, because the way it assembles words is based on pitch, because it's an instrument first. It is possible to make a TTS into a singing TTS, but ... well it's easier to just link it https://github.com/NVIDIA/mellotron
It works, but it's not actually singing, it's just adjusting the pitch and rhythm of "speaking" phonemes into something that isn't quite singing. Basically it sounds like "talking in rythm" rather than singing, as it lacks the ostinato that an instrument has. 
 
Pretty much what Amazon is doing here is "reskinning" an existing TTS base with whatever you give it as a sample, and the result will be something that has the same timbre as the sampled voice, but not the pitch, speed, or ability to emote. Regardless if you train a voice for 1 minute or 1 day, it simply will not sound "as good as Siri", because Siri doesn't do these things either. All it can do is tell jokes with a comedic timing, not laugh at one.
 

I don't understand why you're engaging in this... Moose is never in an apple thread for constructive discussion, commentary, or questions. 

They dont. WD uses custom PCB that has USB integrated into it.
 

But enough about the UK government, let's discuss quantum computers. 😄

But enough about the UK government, let's discuss quantum computers. 😄

I have tried Stage Manager on my 16" MBP and I found it to useful in my workflow. I always forget the virtual desktops are there and never use them.
 
I have also downloaded a free window tiling manager called Tiles. Together with Tiles and Stage Manager I can now efficiently manage my windows and group them without clutter. Stage Manager also focuses on the window/s you have clicked on and moves the rest of the windows to the "Stage dock".
 
I also like Stage Manager is a toggle( optional) and you can auto-hide the side Stage dock as well

What if Stage Manager looks the way it looks (floating stacks of windows on the side at arm's reach) because after macOS and iPadOS it will also be used on a third yet unannounced OS...an OS where windows literally float before your eyes and where the input method makes it inconvenient to cmd+tab or use gestures to swap Spaces...

that's literaly what they announced

that's literaly what they announced

I cant help you if you dont understand 90% of both my replies that carefully went over explaining to you what is going on.
Here exhibits below
 
While you didn't say verbatim, that is clearly what you were implying with your initial posts. 
 
And then you justify yourself by saying that any company does it, its bad. This literally how the entire software eco-system works!
Opinions are different things and I respect it. Yours was straight up misinformation, giving people who dont follow this stuff as closely an impression of a completely different story. 
Lol, no. Apple threads have become more reasonable in this forum these days as there are definitely more than handful of people who actually know what they're talking about and stick up to troll posts that *certain* people always indulge into (a few people come into my mind). Go read my replies to people with genuine questions and curiosity and my tone is entirely different. 

Customising all of your sounds to be wacky stuff was *the* way to customise your Mac during the Classic Mac OS days. Just like every early 2000s Gnome user had their favourite Compiz effects, every early 2000s Mac user I know had some custom sound that they always used on their machine.

But enough about the UK government, let's discuss quantum computers. 😄

"Refute an issue that doesn't exist". Literally, you created the issue that never existed. Apple nor anyone else are forced to spend development time on something they don't want to do. I have a software that's only on the Mac. And I have given you as a user to use it. That does not suddenly mean that you as a user can force me to make that software available on Windows, android or even Windows 95 because you demanded it. That would really be a shitty world to live in as a developer.
 
If I do make it available on other platforms, be thankful about it -- so at least it will encourage me to do the same in the future, just like how Apple released Rosetta 2 for Linux and other ARM based silicon
 
Which bulk? You were wrong and just admit it and move on. Your preconceived notions of Apple made you jump into some dumb conclusion. As someone else said, when has there ever been a productive or useful opinion from you in Apple related thread?

So my boss just walked in and asked why I was sitting on the floor laughing.
Long story short: Now we're both sitting on the floor laughing.

But enough about the UK government, let's discuss quantum computers. 😄

But enough about the UK government, let's discuss quantum computers. 😄