fumblebee

After years of not building a personal financial portfolio, partially for reasons of laziness and lack of disposable income, I feel I'm finally in a position where I can and should start distributing some of my income into various financial products.

My question is, where are YOU deploying your own capital in 2023? Why? How has inflation and local interest rates swayed your decision? Are you investing in equity? What financial products make sense to invest in today? Abnormal activities welcome like, idk, investing in productive capital like a beehive.

And yes, of course what makes to you to invest in may not translate to me, I'm aware that all choices are partially dependent on risk profile, stage of life, and liquidity available. But I'm curious to known your personal activities so that I can build a better mental model and make more reasoned decisions in this area. Thank you kindly.

2-3 months ago, I asked HN about whether there were any good open source tools or packages for TTS (Text to Speech) [1]

I went through the answers (thank you) and the one I had most success with was tortoise-tts [2], which was seriously impressive, but tediously slow due to leveraging both an autoregressive decoder and a diffusion decoder afaik.

Given the ever increasing rate of change in the space of generative AI, I feel it's worth re-asking the question: what (ideally open source, but it's not necessarily a deal breaker) TTS tools are you having the most success with?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34211457 [2] https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts