SleepyCatten<p>Hey folks :FediverseSymbol: </p><p>We've actually done an unwritten, off-the-cusp trans voice Friday recording today :TransHeart: </p><p>We've not listened back to it, because voice dysphoria, but we've added full alt text.</p><p>In case you're wondering how we've done that without listening back to it, we've once against used an amazing tool called <a href="https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subtitle Edit</a>, which has audio to text functionality via the <a href="https://github.com/Purfview/whisper-standalone-win" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Whisper</a> speech recognition engine.</p><p>We used the large-v3 model, which is about 3.1 GB, but gives incredibly accurate transcription.</p><p>In case anyone can't access the alt text, we've added the full transcript below too.</p><p><a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransVoiceFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransVoiceFriday</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransVoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransVoice</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/voice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voice</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/VoiceFeminisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceFeminisation</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/VoiceFeminization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceFeminization</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/VoiceTraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceTraining</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransFem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransFem</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/VoiceDysphoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceDysphoria</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/SubtitleEdit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SubtitleEdit</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/PurfviewWhisper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PurfviewWhisper</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/AudioToText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AudioToText</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/SpeechToText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeechToText</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/SpeechRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeechRecognition</span></a> </p><blockquote><p>Hey folks, I know that we haven't done a voice note in forever, and that's been for a multitude of reasons, some of which are related to mental health, some of which are related to work, stress, anxiety, depression, etc, things like that, which comes under mental health anyway, yeah, partly due to poor time management, yay for being AuDHD! But not gonna lie, some of it does come down to underlying voice dysphoria, because this is the best we've managed to get since December 2021. And just for anyone who hasn't heard roughly what we sounded like beforehand, we haven't exactly moved our voice up a lot. I mean, the base level would just be down here. So I can move my voice back up here easily now, and this is the comfortable, this is the default voice. But, um... It's not where I want it to be, it's not in the female range, and I can't easily push the pitch up higher without it sounding wrong. But yeah, there's been a lot of stuff going on recently, um, a lot of bad stuff for everyone, don't want to talk about all of that. But, um, let's just focus on supporting each other, helping each other, um, being kind to ourselves and others right now, and being compassionate and empathetic. That's all I've really got to say. I'm trying to do the same thing with ourselves, but yeah, it's hard sometimes. Anyway, ta-ta for now.</p></blockquote>