March 21st, Tuesday, is a national holiday called "Spring Equinox Day." This day is one of the 24 solar terms, and it's a day when the length of day and night are almost the same.
Today, I woke up as usual, a little after 5 am, and have been practicing English pronunciation since this morning. I'm using the smartphone app "ELSA SPEAKING," which uses AI to accurately judge pronunciation, so I can correct my pronunciation on my own.
By pronouncing English correctly, it becomes easier to understand the English spoken by native speakers. I am using this method because it is said that training your speaking skills is effective in improving your listening skills.
One of the issues with Japanese people's English is their poor pronunciation. This is because Japanese pronunciation and English pronunciation are completely different, and speaking skills are not given much importance in school education.
I think that by training speaking and listening skills, it's possible to learn practical English more effectively.
Now, let's talk about the topic of AI image generation. Recently, I have been very interested in AI image generation and have tried various methods. However, some degree of knowledge is required to understand them, and sometimes it can be difficult to understand even when researching on the internet.
However, the other day, I finally succeeded in setting up the environment of a popular image-generating AI called "Stable Diffusion" on my computer. The name comes from the mathematical model of diffusion theory.
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| GUI of Stable Diffusion |
To set up this environment, it is necessary to install a program environment called Python and an app called GIT, and run a batch file. Since the batch file runs on the DOS prompt, the progress is displayed in text format.
I didn't know the conditions for completing the installation, so I didn't know if the work was finished or not. Therefore, I misunderstood that the work had frozen and had to redo it many times. Also, it took me half a day to research how to solve the problem.
However, through trial and error, I gained knowledge and was finally able to generate images. I am now very satisfied.
By the way, I found a carefully explained video for beginners and would like to introduce it.
日本一わかりやすいStableDiffusion WebUI AUTOMATIC1111(ローカル版)のインストール方法と基本的な使い方
I tried creating an image using "Stable Diffusion" and I am amazed at how wonderful the outcome is. Although I am an amateur, I think the images created by this AI are of such high quality that it is difficult to distinguish whether they were created by humans or not.
I had already been using the paid web service "FOTOR" to generate images. With FOTOR, anyone can easily create high-quality images. However, I was dissatisfied with the limited types of image models that could be generated and the long time it took to create images. Although there are ways to shorten the time, they require payment, so the service was not very user-friendly.
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| An image generated using FOTOR." |
