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This is why I don't get why OpenAI doesn't open source their TTS. I've read that it is because of the risk of misuse, but if they release it with only two voice
by qwertox 2y ago
This is why I don't get why OpenAI doesn't open source their TTS. I've read that it is because of the risk of misuse, but if they release it with only two voices, one male and one female voice, and ensure that these voices are recognizable AI voices (in the sense of popular), there shouldn't be any risk?
Most of us just need a machine to have the ability to speak to us in a way that sounds halfway human, but not as horrible as old open source TTS systems.
- follower 2y agoWould you settle for as "horrible" as new open source TTS systems? :D My current go to is Piper TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper https://github.com/rhasspy/piper It's MIT-licensed, supports ~30 languages and multiple voices[0]/quality/licenses. Voice output samples: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ Discovered just now that recently there's also been some efforts to train Public Domain/CC-BY licensed voices specifically for Piper TTS too: https://brycebeattie.com/files/tts/ https://brycebeattie.com/files/tts/ ---- footnotes ---- [0] e.g. One of the English voice sets has ~900 voices(!).
- doubloon 2y agoi do find that this Piper project is really amazing. however if i am going to listen to 3 hours of audiobook, i would still pay for a better TTS versus Piper. (now i buy a lot of audiobooks read by voice actors but not every book i want to audio-read has a market to support a voice actor being paid to read it) however Piper is definitely going in the correct direction though, huge progress.