Actually the original Tortoise model (Highly realistic TTS, literally better or equally as good as anything FAANG has released) was trained, from scratch, on a

Actually the original Tortoise model (Highly realistic TTS, literally better or equally as good as anything FAANG has released) was trained, from scratch, on a machine that resembles a crypto-miner with a couple 3090s. The author now works at OpenAI, however it should be an example of what is possible if you put your mind to it.