@elsewhere3382: These umbrella-shaped trees are real. 🌿 On Socotra, a Yemeni island in the Indian Ocean, dragon’s blood trees shape an extraordinary landscape. According to UNESCO, 37% of the archipelago’s 825 plant species occur nowhere else in the world. These landscapes are also home to people, a distinct language, and a culture closely connected to a fragile natural world. Follow ELSEWHERE for extraordinary places and the stories of the people who call them home. Authentic photographs, cropped and animated for this edit. Synthetic narration. Music: an original composition created for this edit. Photo credits — Wikimedia Commons: • “Dragonblood_tree_in_Socotra_1.jpg” — Alex38 — CC BY 4.0. Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragonblood_tree_in_Socotra_1.jpg License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ • “Socotra_Mt._Skand.jpg” — Valerian Guillot — CC BY 2.0. Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Socotra_Mt._Skand.jpg License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ • “Delisha_Beach,_Socotra,_Yemen_(16879318512).jpg” — Valerian Guillot — CC BY 2.0. Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delisha_Beach,_Socotra,_Yemen_(16879318512).jpg License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ • “Qalansiya_fishing_village_(6408198313).jpg” — Gerry & Bonni — CC BY 2.0. Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qalansiya_fishing_village_(6408198313).jpg License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ UNESCO sources: https://whc.unesco.org/fr/list/1263/ https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/nature-and-people-socotra-archipelago #ELSEWHERE #Socotra #Yemen #Nature #Discovery CRÉDITS DE SYNTHÈSE VOCALE / SPEECH SYNTHESIS CREDITS Reproduced from tts_work/CREDITS_TTS.txt. Narration generated locally with Kokoro v1.0, a neural speech synthesis model by hexgrad. Model weights: Apache License 2.0. https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M Inference software: kokoro-onnx by thewh1teagle, MIT License. https://github.com/thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx French voice: ff_siwis. The model documentation attributes French training audio to: Yamagishi, Junichi; Honnet, Pierre-Edouard; Garner, Philip; Lazaridis, Alexandros (2017). The SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database, 2016 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, Centre for Speech Technology Research. CC BY 4.0. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/1705 https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/blob/main/VOICES.md

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