Pony Preservation Project: Difference between revisions

The Pony Preservation Project began on the 4chan /mlp/ board on April 5, 2019 [https://youtu.be/WtuKBm67YkI?t=2735]. The original purpose of the project was to create a text-to-speech engine for the characters of the My Little Pony television show. The first tortured prototypes, using the DeepVoice3 text-to-speech engine, were demonstrated 9 days after the project's formation, demonstrating the task's feasibility. At around the same time, the group began substantially increasing efforts to collect and clean speech transcription data using source material in multiple languages, subtitles, and transcript data from fan wikis. The first dataset creation tools were created to align this data and support interoperability with Audacity.