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README.md

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 tts-core
 ========
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 The core TTS models that power FakeYou.
 
 I'm in the progress of pulling these out of the service monorepo so we can iterate faster.
+
+TODO
+----
+
+Core cleanup
+
+- [ ] Cleanup Tacotron code 
+  - [ ] Integrate WaveGlow and HifiGan more cleanly
+  - [ ] Define the HTTP server interface
+  - [ ] Define the model checking interface
+  - [ ] Clean up in-memory LRU caching
+  - [ ] There are two copies of Nemo. Why? Clean this up.
+- [ ] Deployability
+  - [ ] Clean up requirements.txt and upgrade packages 
+  - [ ] Clean up Dockerfile
+
+Make the models sound better
+
+- [ ] Arpabet
+  - [ ] G2P
+  - [ ] Arpabet custom dictionary
+  - [ ] User-supplied Arpabet strings in braces
+
+- [ ] Word break down 888 -> eight hundred eighty eight
+
+- [ ] Support I18N
+  - [ ] Accent character support
+
+Introduce new models
+
+- [ ] TalkNet
+- [ ] GlowTTS + MelGan (vocoder)
+- [ ] Make these work under the same venv
+
+Lots more I haven't covered yet...