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Best CPU TTS that can run on something like a raspberry pi is Piper. It can do real time synthesis on a raspberry pi and on a real computer it runs several tim
by lupusreal 1y ago
Best CPU TTS that can run on something like a raspberry pi is Piper. It can do real time synthesis on a raspberry pi and on a real computer it runs several times faster with negligible performance cost. I use it for 'reading' ebooks when my eyes get tired. The quality is roughly on par with where Mac OS's TTS was ~10 years ago (the last time I used it.) You can tell it's TTS, but it's good enough that you can become accustomed to it fairly easily.
https://github.com/rhasspy/piper https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
- GaggiX 1y agoThey are talking about STT, not TTS, but as a TTS piper is very good and works nicely on a raspberry pi, I agree.
- dv35z 1y agoWhat voices do you recommend? The ones I had checked out (about a year ago) - the voices were mostly european-sounding, and flat, and not so natural-sounding. Is Piper the best open-source text-to-speech engine out there?
- haiku2077 1y agoYou can also try Kokoro and Sherpa. If this is for personal use the best local TTS is to grab a Mac, set the system voice to one of the current Siri voice models, and then use the 'say' command in the terminal. Yes, really. The nonbinary voice #5 in particular does really well at technical terminology.