The voice at your table

Sean’s reading is original Moonlit Mochi Cafe writing, performed by a synthetic voice. It is not a recording of the owner or a human actor.

Voice model: Piper en_GB-northern_english_male-medium, shared by the rhasspy/Piper voice project. The model card identifies the training dataset as OpenSLR83, UK and Ireland dialect speech data, copyright2018,2019 Google Inc. and volunteer contributors. Dataset authors: Isin Demirsahin, Oddur Kjartansson, Alexander Gutkin and Clara Rivera.

Model card · CC BY-SA4.0 licence

Changes: original café scripts synthesized offline using Piper, slowed to length scale1.7, loudness normalized and encoded as mono MP3. These synthetic voice clips are shared under CC BY-SA4.0. Attribution does not imply endorsement.

The separately played Mochi Lofi Cafe piano, brand artwork and serial remain separate works; this voice attribution is not a blanket licence for those assets. Astronomy calculations use the open-source Astronomy Engine library.