i 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.

i 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.