I was curious and poked at the TTS Colab to switch it from Russian to English (language = 'en', model_id = 'v3_en' under "V3", speaker = 'en_XXX' under "Text").

I was curious and poked at the TTS Colab to switch it from Russian to English (language = 'en', model_id = 'v3_en' under "V3", speaker = 'en_XXX' under "Text"). Short "this is a test"s sound great, so then I tried feeding it the nearest bit of interesting conversational text I had to hand - this thread. Here's your comment through the two apparently-most-developed models: en_116: https://vocaroo.com/1axxFRHCs4YF https://vocaroo.com/1axxFRHCs4YF en_117: https://vocaroo.com/1983M4jVGMdR https://vocaroo.com/1983M4jVGMdR Uuhhhh. It has a bit of a way to go to get to where Google et al are at, IMHO. It sounds vaguely like someone put DeepDream and GPT-3 into a blender and selected the "Transmutate into TTS model" option. On the one hand it's undeniably up there in terms of not sounding like the previous generation of TTS, buuuut yeah it has a bit of a way to go. To be clear it should take just about anyone under a minute to switch the Colab to English, this is just for whoever doesn't feel like fiddling (and/or is on mobile).