# BEFORE YOU ASK ANYTHING, READ THIS FIRST!

Hi, so you are probably wondering on why I wasn't updating this guide in a while...

Well, to be frankly honest, I'm actually literally retired right now or on a break. Uberduck was a great site to use for poking clone AI TTS much and especially making cover songs.

But ever since, it has been updated much with Colab and the other things. So let's start a very simple common questions that people might ask for.

## Why weren't you updating a guide?

Well...

For one, I'm lazy.

For second, I really don't want to update the guide much. I have stuffs to do like video editing, maybe some gaming, or I don't know\... Stuff...&#x20;

But you might be saying:

> OH, HE'S LAZY, HE DOESN'T UPDATE. WHY IS HE NOT UPDATING IT!

Yes, you might be saying that, but listen. I've missed much, and I literally kinda forget on how it goes, with Tacotron and stuff. But AI's now getting much power like Elevenlabs for example, or even RVC (Retrieval based Voice Conversion)

Especially Colab notebooks getting updates and fixes, and it changed everything, and I've missed much.

And listen, I could hire other person who knows to do their job but... Remember, Gitbook, doesn't give you free for hiring people... Let me explain...

As you may know, I use a free personal account. And in order for me to hire others, I need to pay money for it...

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6.70 USD and 12.50 USD per user and per month for this??? I'm a poor person, I can't pay like this. Besides, I make things for free.

You might be asking:

> Why don't you pay for it like everyone else?

That's the thing... I can't. Not if you are that rich person yourself. That makes it easier for you, doesn't it?

Besides, I cannot even use my credit card for it, just because you may know this already. And I mean... YOU KNOW, *\*COUGH\** The news *\*COUGH\**

Another question that came across to ask is:

> Why don't you setup your guide on Github Pages so that people can contribute.

See that's what I was planning to do, however, I don't know any jack crap about Ruby.

Literally requires your computer to set up like this, run setup this, run script that, etc.

That, and also requires knowledge of template editing and transferring over to GitHub pages would be waste of time...

Ok, but enough of me ranting this, let's go ahead and go for another main question and topic.

## What's it going to happen to this guide?

Nothing at all, I might not update this guide. Like I said, lazy.

Although of course, all those topics are really, **REALLY** outdated right now. With colabs being updated, new tools and other stuff. So surely someone might be helpful in a help channel... *Surely, that's for sure...*

## What happened to that Talknet video you uploaded?

Privated, obvious reasons because it's outdated as hell. Besides, no one uses Talknet anymore (well except if you are still using it, I mean I don't know why you still do but anyway.)

We all right now using SO-VITS-SVC and RVC, and I don't know about it if I make that guide in here, that's for sure. If I have motivation for it, I might, but again, I won't be changing much in this gitbook anymore. AI Hub has a guide for it, but for Uberduck, it has everything written in their Colab notebook. So if you want to learn on how to do it, I suggest searching that on YouTube on how to, if you can't read.

As much as I remember, talknet is most likely same as tacotron by collecting audios and transcribing all that stuff together, while in SO-VITS and RVC. You don't have it, you just need an 10-minute audio or more and voilà! You got yourself an SO-VITS or RVC model.

> But, what's the difference between SO-VITS and RVC

SO-VITS is somehow decent but most likely not so good pretty much, if you prefer SO-VITS then yeah you could

RVC - Aw, man. How can I say this... It is really good, the only problem I've noticed someone complained about Training with gardio is broken... So... Yeah, that happens sometimes...

It depends on a quality really...

## If you weren't going to update a guide, then where's the new one?

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Here. Everything it says on this page. Feel free to read it in here because thanks to gitbook it embedded the Google Docs.

## Ending

So once again, this guide is outdated as hell so please, don't ask me about updating it, and I'm not even planning to... They have better than my guide. They have updated so much on Google Docs and so, just read it above. But there some are still not really outdated, like collecting audio and stuff. But for colabs... yeah.... they are outdated... So I don't recommend you read them...

Anyway, thanks for reading and hey, if you want to read here, be my guest... Have a great day.
