We have made quite a lot of progress since our last post. After an intense period of training and experimenting, we decided that we would use a LJspeech pre-trained Waveglow and focus on our Tacotron2 performance. Background In our previous blogs we focused a lot of our efforts on getting our models to converge. We … Continue reading Text to Speech Modeling on Youtube Sourced Single Speaker Data Set with Tacotron2 and Waveglow: Part 3
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It has been a few weeks since we posted results from our text to speech model. We have learned some things about our data, and our model. These findings are meant to add to the discussion on this model so don’t take them as absolute. We learned a lot about the model in online forums … Continue reading Text to Speech Modeling on Youtube Sourced Single Speaker Data Set with Tacotron2 and Waveglow: Part 2
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We sourced 12 hours of publicly available speeches of a single speaker from youtube and trained the Tacotron2/WaveGlow TTS neural network on it. Here are our preliminary results. Background There is an abundance of academic white papers that use the latest “novel approaches” to achieve state of the art results on complex machine learning language … Continue reading Text to Speech Modeling on Youtube Sourced Single Speaker Data Set with Tacotron2 and Waveglow: Part I
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Just because your business does not have the resources to build like a tech giant doesn’t mean you can’t think like one. Small companies, and startups are usually bootstrapping their first few versions of a product, but there are plenty of low cost decisions that companies can make to put them in a great position … Continue reading Big Data Bites: Your Data is A Changing System
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False Negative Also known as a type 2 error, a false negative means that you test negative and you actually have a disease. This is important with a disease that spreads rapidly because of the chances that you could proceed with false confidence and continue to infect friends and loved ones. For example Suppose a … Continue reading False negative what does it mean and why is it important?
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How many times a day do you hear the words “Big Data”? You probably hear it from the full gamut of people: math people, empirically-challenged people, technical people, marketing folks, engineers, your clients and every time you eavesdrop on a conversation in a coffee shop in a business district. Speaking over people’s heads is a … Continue reading Big Data in a Nutshell
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The Gentlest Introduction to Apache Kafka While “Chaos Theory” says the universe trends to complexity, a good engineer should strive to tame that complexity by providing the simplest solution possible. But “simple” solutions can still be too complex for individuals whose job it is to provide usable information to end users and stake holders. … Continue reading Apache Kafka in a Nutshell
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In our previous tutorial we connected our Particle Argon device to the internet, wired in an LED light and then flashed some code that makes it blink. Now we are going to going to add some functionality to be able to control it over the internet. Step 1: Setup your hardware If you have not setup … Continue reading IoT Tutorial Part II : Control LED over the Net with Simple API
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In this tutorial we will create a IoT device using the Particle Argon Kit. The Argon is WI-FI enabled development board that can act as a standalone endpoint or part of particle mesh network. We will be using it as an endpoint. First you will need to setup your particle device. Step 1: Setup Your … Continue reading IoT Tutorial Part I : Create a Simple IoT Device that Blinks LED
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I love our smart cameras but I am tired of waiting for rollouts of new features before I can use the camera. I would also like to store images and video automatically to my own cloud storage for later batch analysis with some home grown ML models. In this tutorial I am going to walk … Continue reading Connecting to Nest Camera API and Getting Live URL
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