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I know it's old at this point and doesn't use the fancy new tech, but Mycroft's Mimic 3 is still pretty impressive and is small enough to fit comfortably and ge
by lolinder 3y ago
I know it's old at this point and doesn't use the fancy new tech, but Mycroft's Mimic 3 is still pretty impressive and is small enough to fit comfortably and generate speech in real time on a raspberry pi [0]. Some of their voices are better than others, but the best of them are definitely equal to the examples of WhisperSpeech given here.
[0] https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/ https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/
- boxed 3y agoThe "English US" voice sounds more Scottish than American to me :P
- rcarmo 3y agoWhich might be a good thing, nae, laddie?
- jpcl 3y agoYeah, the Mimic is a lot less resource intensive. We are working to improve WhisperSpeech in this regard but it's probably always going to require more compute (but in return you'll get higher quality). That said if you have a modern NVidia GPU you should be able to run a voice-bot in real-time with WhisperSpeech.
- freedomben 3y agoWill something like whisper.cpp be possible for whisper speech?
- jpcl 3y agoWe looked at this at one point and it seems whisper.cpp/llama.cpp have all the bits needed to make it work. I'd love to help if someone wanted to give it a shot.
- follower 3y agoIf you're not already aware, the primary developer of Mimic 3 (and its non-Mimic predecessor Larynx) continued TTS-related development with Larynx and the renamed project Piper: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper https://github.com/rhasspy/piper Last year Piper development was supported by Nabu Casa for their "Year of Voice" project for Home Assistant and it sounds like Mike Hansen is going to continue on it with their support this year.