Howard Baik

I think this chapter got significantly better! More visuals made the reading easier. Also, the figures with code are now large enough to read.

Is the `fig.alt` chunk option not supported in `opts_current$set()`? I've tried the following: ``` knitr::opts_current$lock(FALSE) if (is.null(knitr::opts_current$get("fig.alt"))) { knitr::opts_current$set(fig.alt = "hello world") } plot(pressure) ``` and don't see the alt.

@cderv Thanks for the quick response. Your code sheds some light, but brings up followup questions. I did try options hooks, but this didn't work: ``` knitr::opts_hooks$set(fig.alt = function(options) {...

Yes, this helps a lot. What I'm trying to implement is not possible in knitr. I'll have to figure out a workaround fix.

Awesome talk! I learned about a new function: `usethis::use_package("praise")`

## Proposed Solution Whenever you run the `tts` command, it checks whether the `model_name` & `vocoder_name` exists in the `/Users/howardbaek/Library/Application Support/tts` folder. If it does exist, it starts converting text-to-speech,...

> See https://github.com/yihui/xaringan/blob/8dcfa3f9a0d7f921176d9fde90e2a765c76ee8e7/R/render.R#L407 Best, John > […](#) > On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 2:01 PM Howard Baek ***@***.***> wrote: An idea from @seankross : Move all the Coqui TTS...

I looked quickly at Coqui STT, and it looks like they are [no longer actively maintaining](https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT#readme) it, but do have a [command line client](https://stt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/DEPLOYMENT.html#using-the-command-line-client).

Here's my STT project, a wrapper around OpenAI Whisper: https://github.com/howardbaek/audrey

I agree that adding `reticulate` is a heavy dependency for this package. And we have to decide whether `text2speech` wants to call `tts` through a virtual environment using `reticulate` or...