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Would 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/rhassp
by follower 2y ago
Would 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/
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[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.