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  • It sounds really impressive to me. Looks like a lot of hours went into this, although the 100 hours on generating and selecting the voice lines would be more interesting if it was spilt between human labour and the GPU run time.

    To me this is a great use case, it’s a free mod for an old game - I can’t imagine anyone could/would pay actual voice actors to do this.

    • Synthetic Voice Generation: Tortoise-TTS can take hours to generate hundreds of vocal lines on a GPU. Additionally, you may try generating multiple samples at once, as the quality and delivery may vary with random seed.
    • Quality Control: Filter out bad audio samples and select the best ones. If a vocal line isn’t working try generating more, correcting any issues with the text or rewriting it more phonetically. For example, rewriting “EVA” as “E.V.A.” or “II” as “Two”.

    Rough estimates.

    • 100 Hours of work generating, selecting, splicing and cleaning audio files.
    • 30 Hours of programming with the SCI Companion.
    • 1/2 Hour on SCIProgramming.com.













  • These are the rules for normal people…

    Inheritance Tax

    is a tax on the estate (the property, money and possessions) of someone who’s died.

    There’s normally no Inheritance Tax to pay if either:

    • the value of your estate is below the £325,000 threshold
    • you leave everything above the £325,000 threshold to your spouse, civil partner, a charity or a community amateur sports club

    The standard Inheritance Tax rate is 40%. It’s only charged on the part of your estate that’s above the threshold.

    https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax

    Business Relief for Inheritance Tax

    What qualifies for Business Relief

    You can get 100% Business Relief on:

    • a business or interest in a business
    • shares in an unlisted company

    You can get 50% Business Relief on:

    • shares controlling more than 50% of the voting rights in a listed company
    • land, buildings or machinery owned by the deceased and used in a business they were a partner in or controlled
    • land, buildings or machinery used in the business and held in a trust that it has the right to benefit from

    You can only get relief if the deceased owned the business or asset for at least 2 years before they died.

    https://www.gov.uk/business-relief-inheritance-tax/what-qualifies-for-business-relief