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Ask HN: Best open-source text-to-speech tools?

by fumblebee on 3/14/23, 2:30 PM with 2 comments

2-3 months ago, I asked HN about whether there were any good open source tools or packages for TTS (Text to Speech) [1]

I went through the answers (thank you) and the one I had most success with was tortoise-tts [2], which was seriously impressive, but tediously slow due to leveraging both an autoregressive decoder and a diffusion decoder afaik.

Given the ever increasing rate of change in the space of generative AI, I feel it's worth re-asking the question: what (ideally open source, but it's not necessarily a deal breaker) TTS tools are you having the most success with?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34211457 [2] https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

  • by muyuu on 3/18/23, 12:06 AM

    I installed and tried pico-tts as recommended in that thread IIRC

    someone said it was good enough... I don't really think so, for reading long text it gets really annoying and I'm hoping for a bit better

  • by andrewfromx on 3/14/23, 2:33 PM

    https://coqui.ai/

    https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

    I can never remember the name but always google: incessant loud chirp of the invasive frog