> What's the best open source text to speech? I haven't re-evaluated OSS TTS options for a few months but from my own experience earlier in the year I've been

> What's the best open source text to speech? I haven't re-evaluated OSS TTS options for a few months but from my own experience earlier in the year I've been pleased with the results I've gotten from Piper: * https://github.com/rhasspy/piper https://github.com/rhasspy/piper I've primarily used it with the LibriTTS-based voices due to their license but if it's for personal local use you can probably use some of the other even higher quality voices. The official samples are here: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ Here's a small number of pre-rendered samples I've used that were generated from a WIP Piper port of my Dialogue Tool[0] project: https://rancidbacon.gitlab.io/piper-tts-demos/ https://rancidbacon.gitlab.io/piper-tts-demos/ While it's not perfect & output quality varies for a number of reasons, I've been using it because it's MIT licensed & there's multiple diverse voice options with licenses that suit my purposes. (Piper and its predecessors Larynx & Mimic3 are significantly ahead of where other FLOSS options had been up until their existence in terms of quality.) [0] https://rancidbacon.itch.io/dialogue-tool-for-larynx-text-to-speech https://rancidbacon.itch.io/dialogue-tool-for-larynx-text-to... ---- Edit to add links to some of my notes related to FLOSS TTS, in case they're of interest: * https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/notes_public/-/blob/main/notes/notes--text-to-speech--offline.md https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/notes_public/-/blob/main/note... * https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/notes_public/-/blob/main/notes/notes--text-to-speech--piper-tts.md https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/notes_public/-/blob/main/note... * https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/notes_public/-/blob/main/notes/notes--text-to-speech.md https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/notes_public/-/blob/main/note...