Some news relating EP8 & OpenSource AI-Voice

Hi everyone,
Belated Happy New Year!
  1. Progress with EP8 is going great. It will be released at the end of January. 
  2. Most likely, the narrator's voice will remain unchanged. With workarounds, I can continue working with the current technology.
  3. Nevertheless, I am experimenting in parallel with open-source language models that can be trained. There are two good ones that anyone can research. Since I'm a noob dev, I spent three days setting everything up, all with the help of Grok. Now the first training is running in parallel. I'll share some results as soon as they're ready. Maybe then, starting with EP9 or EP10, a slightly different voice will be noticeable.