https://github.com/jarombouts/star-trek-voice-clone

audio files sourced from https://www.trekcore.com/audio/

the inflection and impersonal feel is definitely hard to get right. there are parameters in the elevenlabs API docs to make the voice more stable (= monotonous; see speak.sh in that repo) but still the voice cloner on my $5 plan doesn't really get it right.

nevertheless... i'm still having a lot of fun with this.

edit: if I am forced to rot my brain with the 10x productivity boosting slop gun, at least I'll do it grinning

     > pod cleaned up. waiting on the behemoth to finish grinding through Italy.
     < if only postgres had progress indicators

       ... then they coulda called it progresql
     > lmaooo
     > Bash(~/speak.sh "Joke detected. Humor subroutine engaged. Ha. Ha. Ha.")

quickly had claude dump everything into https://github.com/jarombouts/star-trek-voice-clone

100% ai slop repo, be warned if that offends you.

gimme a minute to do some work stuff and I'll throw a little sample, 11labs howto + the source files online somewhere. check back to this thread in a while, i'll post it here. obviously the legal status of this is unclear, but i guess if you keep usage strictly personal it should be fine.

I just yeeted a bunch of extremely noisy fragments into elevenlabs, and it came out pretty good on their cheap $5 plan. If you're after this for your own amusement, let me know if you want a screencap, or a dump of the source files.

Obv no clean room reconstruction but good enough for personal use...