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# Some personal words before using **Thorsten-Voice**
> I contribute my voice as a person believing in a world where all people are equal. No matter of gender, sexual orientation, religion, skin color and geocoordinates of birth location. A global world where everybody is warmly welcome on any place on this planet and open and free knowledge and education is available to everyone. :earth_africa: (*Thorsten Müller*)
Please keep in mind, that **i am no professional voice talent**. I'm just a normal guy sharing his voice with the world.
title = {Thorsten - Open German Voice (Emotional) Dataset},
month = jun,
year = 2021,
note = {{Please use it to make the world a better place for
whole humankind.}},
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {2.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5525023},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5525023}
}
```
All emotional recordings where recorded by myself and i tried to feel and pronounce that emotion even if the phrase context does not match that emotion. Example: I pronounced the sleepy recordings in the tone i have shortly before falling asleep.
### Samples
Listen to the phrase "**Mist, wieder nichts geschafft.**" in following emotions.
This [TTS-model](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m4RuffbvdOmQWnmy_Hmw0cZ_q0hj2o8B?usp=sharing) has been trained on **Thorsten-21.02-neutral** dataset. The recommended trained Fullband-MelGAN Vocoder can be downloaded [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hsfaconm4Yd9wPVyOtrXjWQs4ZAPoouY?usp=sharing).
You can use a free A-GPL licensed models trained on **Thorsten-21.02-neutral** dataset via the [silero-models](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models/blob/master/models.yml) project.
* [](https://colab.research.google.com/github/snakers4/silero-models/blob/master/examples_tts.ipynb)
### ZDisket
[ZDisket](https://github.com/ZDisket/TensorVox) made a tool called TensorVox for setting up an TTS environment on Windows and included a german TTS model trained by [monatis](https://github.com/monatis/german-tts). Thanks for sharing that :thumbsup:. See it in action on [Youtube](https://youtu.be/tY6_xZnkv-A).
# Public talks
I really want to bring the topic "**Open Voice For An Open Future**" to a bigger public attention.
* I've been part of a Linux User Group podcast about Mycroft AI and talked on my TTS efforts on that in (*May 2021*).
* I was invited by [Yusuf](https://github.com/monatis/) from Turkish tensorflow community to talk on "How to make machines speak with your own voice". This talk has been streamed live on Youtube and is available [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Uwb-Bg144&t=2303s). If you're interested on the showed slides, feel free to download my presentation [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ynnw0ilKV3WwMSJHytrN3GXRiFr8x3r0DUimBm1y0LI/edit?usp=sharing) (*June 2021*)
)
* I've been invited as speaker on VoiceLunch language & linguistics on 03.01.2022. [Here are my slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Gi6BmYHs7g4ZgdAiIKGBnBwZDCvJOD9DJxQOGlgds1o/edit?usp=sharing) (*January 2022*).
* In addition i share my thoughts and knowledge on Open Voice on my [Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/ThorstenMueller).
Additionally, a really nice thanks for my dear colleague, Sebastian Kraus, for supporting me with audio recording equipment and for being the creative mastermind behind the logo design.
And last but not least i want to say a **huge, huge thank you** to a special guy who supported me on this journey as a partner right from the beginning. Not just with nice words, but with his time, audio optimization knowhow and finally GPU power.
**Thank you so much, dear **Dominik** ([@domcross](https://github.com/domcross/)) for being my partner on this journey.**
