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[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

[Edit: indeed, its actually good that it's 2gb]

2gb plugin??!

Btw, does it work with tenacity?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago (14 children)

AI models are often multiple gigabytes, tbh it's a good sign that it's not "AI" marketing bullshit (less of a risk with open source projects anyway). I'm pretty wary of "AI" audio software that's only a few megabytes.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Tensorflowlite models are tiny, but they're potentially as much an audio revolution as synthetizer were in the 70s. It's hard to tell if that's what we're looking at here.

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[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago

It seems reasonable given it includes multiple AI models.

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I thought audacity was tarnished with spyware or something these days. Is it safe again?

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 74 points 2 years ago

It was a pull request to add opt-out analytics that got blown out of proportion, where the real issue was the EULA and how tonedeaf of a move it was considering the community around Audacity. IIRC, they ended up replacing it with opt-in analytics.

[–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Not really, but there is a fork called tenacity which fixes this

[–] sapetoku@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been using the OpenVINO plugins for a few weeks and it's genuinely impressive. Noise cancelling is one thing, but the transcription tool is amazing. I can create subtitles from conference recordings in minutes and create transcripts of recorded zoom calls, etc. and it does it for multiple languages.

That's the kind of shit I like using AI for.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I read "Audacity ads" and thought for a moment they had gone to the dark side

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We already had a scare with them, but turns out it was very unfair overreaction to the project.

In this case I'm happy as long as it's hardware platform independent and uses open source released models.

AI music art has been for a long time in the hands of industry moguls and us peasants have had nothing. So I'm happy with anything that puts this power in the hands of the everyman.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Was it unfair? I haven't been following since they got bought out by spyware?

EDIT: Audacity was acquired by a company called MuseGroup in 2021 who added unnecessary telemetry and they admit that they do provide the data the collect to third parties. Some claim the changes were reverted but I haven't confirmed that myself so until I see there is no telemetry it's spyware as far as I'm concerned.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)
[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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[–] homoludens@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

According to the repo, it builds fine on Linux. They just don't distribute a binary for it.

https://github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity/issues/27

[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm sure I used to use Audacity back in the day as a free, quick and dirty editor to splice up audio tracks. I'm talking at least 10 years ago.

Had no idea it was still even a thing.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's honestly pretty much the industry standard for indie creators. There's nothing super flashy about it, it just does its job very well.

This along with 7-zip and OBS and the like have been pretty impressive success stories for FOSS, even if most of their users don't even know what that means.

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[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

...and Audacity for Windows 64-bit is required to run these plugins.

Useless.

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

On lemme I'm often reminded of the vegan joke:

How do you tell if someone is a Linux user? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Oh boy this is what I always wanted woooo

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