Voice New | Text To Speech Wiseguy

Title: Design and Implementation of a Text-to-Speech System with a Wiseguy Voice

• Normalize text consistently; separate punctuation tags from tokens.
• Warm-start from pre-trained weights for stability when data is limited.
• Regularize with dropout, weight decay; use data augmentation (speed perturbation, volume).

12. Safety, content filtering, and guardrails

• Sample rate: 48 kHz recommended; 24-bit depth; deliver at 48kHz/24-bit (or 44.1kHz/24-bit if constrained).
• File format: WAV, PCM, mono.
• Loudness target: -23 LUFS integrated (or -16 LUFS for streaming contexts) — pick your target and normalize consistently.
• Peak level: -1 dBFS max.
• Room: acoustically treated or vocal booth with minimal reverb.
• Mic selection: large-diaphragm condenser (e.g., Neumann TLM 103) or high-quality dynamic (e.g., Shure SM7B) depending on desired warmth; use pop filter, shock mount.
• Preamp & chain: high-quality preamp, optionally analog compression. Use pad/gain to avoid clipping.