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Free Local Text to Speech?
It seems very odd that so many complex LLM features like image generation
are available and run locally but I can't find one that will do text-to-speech.
I need local because the end-user does not have regular web connectivity.
The idea case is reading PDFs during plane flights.
Even Dragon Systems (anyone remember "Barnburner One..."?) now is cloud connected.
- ssmaameri 2y agoOpenAI Whisper model is open source and can be run locally. There is a "light" version also to help it run on lower resourced machines, e.g local machine perhaps
- dv35z 2y agoCheck out Piper TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper https://github.com/rhasspy/piper Note: I tried to run it on MacOS and had an issue with Python compatibility - ended up running it in a Docker container, got it working fine. If you experience the same issue, let me know - happy to share the code.
- daly 2y agoI'll check that out. Thanks.
- solardev 2y agoWindows and Mac systems have this built in now, with a variety of voices. It's usually grouped under accessibility settings. Would that work?