{"channel":"cities","content":"<green> Faulkton SD is along US 212, west of Watertown.\r\n\r\nToday's task: finding a speech-to-text model that supports Lithuanian.\r\n\r\nThe choices seem to be OpenAI.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nElevenLabs supports: << English (USA, UK, Australia, Canada), Japanese, Chinese, German, Hindi, French (France, Canada), Korean, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Italian, Spanish (Spain, Mexico), Indonesian, Dutch, Turkish, Filipino, Polish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Arabic (Saudi Arabia, UAE), Czech, Greek, Finnish, Croatian, Malay, Slovak, Danish, Tamil, Ukrainian & Russian. >>\r\n\r\nGoogle Gemini supports: << Arabic (Egyptian), German (Germany), English (US), Spanish (US), French (France), Hindi (India), Indonesian (Indonesia), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian (Russia), Dutch (Netherlands), Polish (Poland), Thai (Thailand), Turkish (Turkey), Vietnamese (Vietnam), Romanian (Romania), Ukrainian (Ukraine), Bengali (Bangladesh), English (India), Marathi (India), Tamil (India), Telugu (India) >>\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nPlayAI (<resource> https://play.ht ) seems to support Lithuanian.\r\n\r\nAlso, Coqui AI (<resource> an open-source project; https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS ) claims to support Lithuanian.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nThe main problem with OpenAI is that, sometimes, the words are truncated.\r\n\r\nThis has been most common with << pir\u0161tin\u0117s >> in testing; the leading << P >> sound is missing.","created_at":"2025-05-28T16:20:29.981783","id":564,"llm_annotations":{},"parent_id":null,"processed_content":"<p><span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> Faulkton SD is along US 212, west of Watertown.\r</span></span></p>\n<p>Today's task: finding a speech-to-text model that supports Lithuanian.\r</p>\n<p>The choices seem to be OpenAI.\r</p>\n<hr class=\"section-break\" />\n<p>ElevenLabs supports: <span class=\"literal-text\">English (USA, UK, Australia, Canada), Japanese, Chinese, German, Hindi, French (France, Canada), Korean, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Italian, Spanish (Spain, Mexico), Indonesian, Dutch, Turkish, Filipino, Polish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Arabic (Saudi Arabia, UAE), Czech, Greek, Finnish, Croatian, Malay, Slovak, Danish, Tamil, Ukrainian &amp; Russian.</span>\r</p>\n<p>Google Gemini supports: <span class=\"literal-text\">Arabic (Egyptian), German (Germany), English (US), Spanish (US), French (France), Hindi (India), Indonesian (Indonesia), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian (Russia), Dutch (Netherlands), Polish (Poland), Thai (Thailand), Turkish (Turkey), Vietnamese (Vietnam), Romanian (Romania), Ukrainian (Ukraine), Bengali (Bangladesh), English (India), Marathi (India), Tamil (India), Telugu (India)</span>\r</p>\n<hr class=\"section-break\" />\n<p>PlayAI <span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> <a href=\"https://play.ht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://play.ht</a> </span></span> seems to support Lithuanian.\r</p>\n<p>Also, Coqui AI <span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> an open-source project; <a href=\"https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS</a> </span></span> claims to support Lithuanian.\r</p>\n<hr class=\"section-break\" />\n<p>The main problem with OpenAI is that, sometimes, the words are truncated.\r</p>\n<p>This has been most common with <span class=\"literal-text\">pir\u0161tin\u0117s</span> in testing; the leading <span class=\"literal-text\">P</span> sound is missing.</p>","quotes":[],"subject":"faulkton (part 1)"}