If you're asking if it's worse then yes it is worse.

What's the best way to measure how close I am to that?

Is it not uncharactaristic that they're talking sbout this in public?

They aren't?

> Representatives for Apple, Anthropic and OpenAI declined to comment.

I mean we know it's happening, so they definitely are.

No, that's not how talking in public is defined

Somone obviously talked. It's impossible for us to know this is happening otherwise. Normally we don't know what Apple does until they announce.

It doesn't need to be accurate, just consistent.

Finally, a valid use for these dorky ass looking glasses!

Why DTD and not XSD?

Maybe this makes up for them destroying Notepad for some people.

These kind of things still exist. Libraries often have them. I think it might just be a case of weak marketing. We don't hear about them.

...what?

There is no alternative.

I don't think there are fully non-chinese alternatives, but there absolutely are other phones that are not fully manufactured in china. Hell, even some iPhones aren't entirely made in china.

What's an example of that? Anytging I can run locally?

A paid product, but https://elevenlabs.io/ does it pretty well. There is some work on open source versions you can run locally, they work reasonably well, but I haven't kept up with the FOSS field in several months, so I'm unsure which is currently best

There are some really good open source TTS models out there now. Dia 1.6B or OpenAudio S1 are good options, and you can always check whichever models are trending on huggingface: https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-to-speech