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Comment by erikschoster

It does appear to synthesize the audio with a wasm module compiled from rust, presumably developed as a python script first based on the source comments.

https://github.com/celphase/duck-pond/blob/main/src/synth.rs

To the credit of the author there is also an attribution file which describes a process of deriving the models from recordings (none of the techniques are very novel, but it's fairly impressive to see automated -- edit: I assume the project is LLM-generated) https://github.com/celphase/duck-pond/blob/main/ATTRIBUTION....

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