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TTS voices that sound nice? (thorsten-voice.de)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

There are multiple screenreaders but their voices simply suck. KDEs espeak has way worse voices than Android eSpeak for some reason.

There is Thorsten Voice, a grest project that sounds really nice.

Not sure if he has a espeak dataset too.

Do you know any others?

Its essential for blind people, I dont think any blind person uses Linux if they have to hear these robot voices every day.

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[–] fhein@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

A few days ago I wrote down a couple of links to interesting TTS projects that I was going to look into whenever I have time, along with some brief notes.

https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS TTS + XTTS, GPU inference? 3GB model.

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper Low resource, CPU inference. 50MB model.

https://github.com/p0p4k/vits2_pytorch GPU inference? 500MB model. https://github.com/p0p4k/vits2_pytorch/discussions/27 Someone's models for vits2