Good free TTS (text-to-speech) options?

Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 33 points – 12 months ago

Are there any free/open-source TTS options out there that are on the same level as Google Cloud's? I tried a lot of free ones, but they are absolutely awful and still sound like my Amiga did 30 years ago. With LLMs being available as open source, I am hoping there's also a good TTS offering I just haven't found yet.

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Have you tried Piper?

Yes, but if you compare it to https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech?hl=en (scroll down a bit and you can try it) and the Neural2 model, it sounds like shit. I mean, it's great to see that there are efforts, but it just pales in comparison.

Well, it's about as good as you're going to get right now.