#joshua rtvs

[bingoary]

"stupid fucking baby" -benry

"bah [hoe]" -joshua

[heritableseance]

drawn on my phone

[tygrstryke]

Reminds me when Wayneradiotv was asked by his AI son to watch his own stream.

in pain from laughing at this fucking video

[ohnoitsz1m]

Finalized furry Joshua’s colors :]

Just a pupy…

+ his old iterations before I decided to actually color him

[lyingbard]

Why Nothing Sounds Quite Like LyreBird

Fans of RTVS may remember Joshua, beautiful baby boy of wayneradiotv. If you're like me, you might be wondering why Joshua stayed dead after LyreBird shut down. Why couldn't he be brought back with a different TTS? The fact is that LyreBird was a product of a very specific time in AI TTS. In March 2017, Google released a paper on Tacotron [1], one of the first AI TTS's with real success. In April 2017, LyreBird began showing off their TTS buisness [2]. As AI bros are wont to do they took that shit. LyreBird is a version of Tacotron. It incorporates technologies that would be published in the next few Tacotron papers [3] including multi-speaker, prosody encoding, and prosody prediction. And in February 2018, Tacotron 2 came out [4].

Tacotron 2 is better in every way. It's faster, better at imitation, and simpler. This makes it much more economical to run and fine-tune on a specific speaker, so every subsequent AI TTS is based off of Tacotron 2.

If you read the paper, Tacotron 1 has a lot of arbitrary and untested choices. It's clear that they published it in a hurry to prove that it could be done, but they hadn't refined it to cut the unnecessary fluff.

This brings me to why I'm writing this. I hope it's clear that I did a lot of research for this. That's because I did my best to recreate LyreBird, named LyingBard, and I've put it up for you to play with here.

You may notice though that it's not quite right. The main reason is that I had to go with a low quality version (reduction factor 5 for those who read the paper). A high quality version would take too long to train with my current set up and I'm almost certain that's what they used.

If I got about $100 in donations, I'm pretty sure I could get a high quality version trained in about a month. It still wouldn't sound exactly the same. Due to the chaotic nature of training a neural network, anything short of getting the actual files off LyreBird (now Descript's) servers won't make it sound exactly the same.

Regardless, LyingBard is here to stay. It's hosted on a free server so I have no reason to take it down. I'll be posting about updates here on this blog. I'm working towards getting custom voices ready at the moment and I've got some ideas for new features and fun toys for the future.

Thanks for reading!

Here's some sources if you wanna learn more about stuff I mentioned:

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10135

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/lyrebird-can-listen-and-copy-any-voice-in-one-minute

[3] https://google.github.io/tacotron/

[4] https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05884

[jesuscrab]

"lost respect for rtvs, apparently they used ai generation to make the phonecalls..."

I have bad news to tell you about about a lot of rtvs projects then.

[crackmilfsnearyou]

oohoo maybe the radiotv wayne can use tghis the useful video to make a new Joshua like son

[czolgosz]

i do still sometimes watch rtvs streams but way less than before 🤔 i remain in two of the discord servers and get notifications but i usually ignore them. well every month when i get the notification for an upcoming vhs viewingz i think "ah i should tune in those are always fun" and then i forget

[confectionscary]

Madokami’s angels

[arsenic-kneecaps]

Howdy do! I’m Raine/Ars/Arsenic Kneecaps and I have an idea!

I’m a librarian with a lot of free time at my desk so I do a lot coloring books. I’m also a big fan of RadioTV Solutions and so I’ve been pondering the idea of combining RTVS and coloring books.

How would this be done?

1) I want to trace screen caps from live action RTVS bits (Fax Hell/mass, Seance of Joshua, Spamton Value Network, Congress, Homer, GameClam,etc.) and slap ‘em all into a printable PDF “book” for fans to color however they see fit. Since some members of RTVS prefer to appear in virtual form-for example in the Congress stream where there are talk sprites (that I think were made by Mike? I don’t quite remember, please correct me if not.) for members such as Gir, Holly, Trog and Mira. Credit to the artists of these sprites would of course be provided.

2) I’ve also been thinking about making the coloring book a Zine of some sort. Where we’d all get together in a big Discord server, create and compile lineart fanart of RTVS and interstitially mix it in with the traced screen caps. Ensuring that no art would go without credit as a coloring piece can have the artists info paired with it.

I’ve never organized a zine before. And I’ve never made a coloring book- so I just wanted to gage interest and see what y’all think! Feel free to hit me with any ideas. I’d love to hear ‘em.

[bingoary]

where did this image originate from?

me and archie have been thinking about it, he thinks it's ai generated, i think it just might be a random baby. maybe i never saw a stream where wayne talked about it. if you know please answer this if you know 😭

[cometcrystal]

Some of my comfort streams/vods (i have rewatched them multiple times)

vinny - skyrim (both runs)

vinny - mobile game ads

vinny - petz 5

vinny - gigglebone gang games

vinny - detective pikachu corruptions

vinny - grossology

vinny - toilet in wonderland

wayne - arthur and the invisibles

wayne - rct2

wayne - gollum

wayne - novel ai (specifically the streams with joshua and for halloween)

wayne - the grand tour with genius vs antichrist

wayne - playing as pinhead but every time he gets mad he eats an egg

wayne - i. m. meen

wayne - sonic forum

wayne - floigan

jerma - sims 1

jerma - infomercials

jerma - daedalus encounter

jerma - strawberry magic

jerma - manos hands of fate live watch

jerma - fable 2

jerma - the casino game with the long mr greenz bit

jerma - you laugh you lose

scorpy - star wars

scorpy - all mario party sessions

scorpy - a way out (with wayne)

scorpy - david cage games

rtvs - jackbox

rtvs - among us

rtvs - cyberkidz

multiple - hitman

[divinemackerel]

new headcanon because if i remember correctly, joshua was controlled by like 8 rtvs members at a time, and because he is canonically Gordon Martini Freeman's Son and Will be featured in a fanfiction.

system!joshua. it doesnt need to be brought up or elaborated on BUT. he is systemcoded.

[skyburger]

on a scale of one to ten how bad is it that i didnt know "bought the farm" was a real phrase (as in, used in contexts other than in memorium of joshua rtvs) until i read this whole page rating every bowser speite & model............ it never occurred to me that it meant anything more than the "loved cashews" bit did ok...........................

[lyingbard]

LyingBard Update!

LyingBard has been migrated to an entirely new backend. This took me forever, but I needed to do it.

Everything is basically the same. Main differences are that it now supports user accounts and generations are now saved to disk. This will make the website not crash as much and allow you to access old generations (so long as you make an account).

This is all gearing up for custom speakers coming soon I prommi!

Test it out:

Thanks to everyone sharing LyingBard! And a special thanks to my first donator!

While I'm at it, feel free to make suggestions and give feedback on what you want to see. I've got ideas, but I want to know what you want too.