Yes, there’s a stop of exhalation between the s and the K. If there wasn’t, it would sound more like the sk of the English word sky instead.

EDIT: He does not, however, stop between Kindern and werden and not between werden and Leute, which does sound weird to me. Less like standard German and more like a dialect.

I would be interested to know still if you hear the glottal stops you’re talking about in the example above, though?

In the voice changed output for “Das Kind”? It’s not perfect, but yes. If you’re interested in the “biomechanics”: It’s the difference between a miniscule stopping of the continuous exhalation from your mouth for the s before starting a new burst exhalation for the k vs doing both as part of the same single exhalation that directly changes from continuous to burst.

If you provide storage to upload four audio .wav files (each about 400 KiB), I can send you samples generated by me speaking, then cloned with w-okada using a generic voice I believe is freely usable. It’s far from perfect, but it’s good enough for me to clearly tell which is which just by listening.

“Das Kind” is /daskınt/ not /dasʔkınt/.

It absolutely is /dasʔkınt/ in the standard German I’ve grown up with. I’ve never heard anyone any native speaker pronounce it as /daskınt/.

In German, just the same: there is not generally a pause between words written separately: there’s no gap that you can find on a spectrogram of a recording of someone saying, say, “brauner Sack” between the two words.

At the cost of appealing to authority: As a native German speaker, I can absolutely hear the glottal stop between two separate words. It exists. It can also often be found between consecutive vowels within a word, but not necessarily between consecutive consonants like in your example. There’s a reason why it’s in the IPA. It’s also e.g. the basis for the “gender not-really-neutral” dialect of German, which injects an additional glottal stop into a word (like Bürger:innen, which is pronounced like Bürger innen, not like Bürgerinnen).

Mundhirnverbindungslatenz.

Mostly true, but in standard German one would normally vocalize “Schlafsack” without any audible pause between the f and the s.

If you were to pronounce “Schlaf sack”, there would generally be an expectation of a glottal stop between the f and the s (dialects excluded).

So while, yes, compound words in German are written without spaces, that’s not just a writing difference.

The good Apertus model is too large at 70B, unfortunately. The 8B model is much too small to be useful for what I need.

Yeah, it seems the llama.cpp changes have been merged in the last 24 hours. I’m hoping ollama makes them available this week.

Merzweckeier!

Thank you very much, I hadn’t heard about this model coming out anywhere!

Seems like I’ll need to wait just a bit more for it to be available in Ollama. As soon as it’s there I’ll try it out :)

I’m really hoping Soofi models are going to be good. Because afaict they’ll be the first (and so far only) open source (not just open weight) models in the ~30B parameters range.

To add: I’ve never tasted an alcoholic drink that didn’t improve by removing the alcohol.

Shhhh! We keep up that reputation deliberately so not even more people come here and worsen the housing crisis ;)

To anwer what I consider your deeper question, there are generally only two paths to financial security:

1. Inherit (either your own family or marry into one)
2. Invest in your own human capital to maximize the income you can earn per work hour, then start saving enough of that income into buying partial ownership of the economy (e.g. via stock market capitalization-weighted index funds).

Working more hours, which “passive income” strategies almost always equate to, just robs you of what little free time you have on this planet. Almost nobody thinks on their deathbed “I wish I had spent more hours of my life working”.

school pretty much failed to teach me the right way of life.

The education system’s job is giving you the opportunity to maximize your human capital. It may have failed you there, but that doesn’t mean you need to abandon that pursuit.

Is it possible to make some form of passive income from sidehustles?

In the binary way you worded this: No. You must always leverage something to generate income. Different methods require different levels of activity, though.

My parents grew up in the ruins of post WWII Germany, so that has certainly impacted their raising of me.

But even setting that aside, deliberately wasting food is a disrespect to all the life that needed to end for you to have it. Be it flora, fauna, or fungi.

With gnupg, git, and a hardware security token. Also known as “pass”.

Wasting it, if it can at all be avoided.

What’s there to lay out, other than what anyone can read from the Wikipedia entries?

The Internet is a specific global network of computer nodes that use some version of the Internet Protocol to communicate with each other. There are many different services over on it. The WWW is simply one such service.

German neoliberals (which most CEOs of our larger corporations are) and empirical data don’t really mesh well. It’s why most of them still clutch the neoclassical “school” of economics, which has zero empirical data behind its basic assumptions.

If only there was a mechanism for new companies to challenge and outcompete dinosaurs. Unfortunately, the regulatory capture emerging from capitalism and explicitly supported by our electorate means barriers of entry are drawn such that it’s almost impossible to challenge entrenched wealth, unless being backed by rival entities of comparable wealth.