Ask HN: Open-source, local Text-to-Speech (TTS) generators

• TTS

  233 29,831 9.4 Python

  🐸💬 - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production

  

I just noticed that https://coqui.ai/ is "Shutting down".

I'm building a web app (React / Django) which takes a list of affirmations & goals (in Markdown files), puts them into a database (SQlite), and uses voice synthesis to create voice audio files of the phrases. These are combined with a relaxed backing track (ffmpeg), made into playlists of 10-20 phrases (randomly sampled, or according to a theme: "mind" "body" "soul") and then play automatically in the morning & evening (cron). This allows you to persistently hear & vocalize your own goals & good vibes over time.

I had been planning to use Coqui TTS as the local text-to-speech engine, but with this cancellation, I'd love to hear from the community what is a great open-source, local text-to-speech engine?

Generally, I learn both the highest quality commercially available technology (example: ElevenLabs), and also the best open-source equivalent. Would love to hear suggestions & perspectives on this. What voice synth tools are you investing your time into learning & building with?

• piper

  40 4,301 8.6 C++

  A fast, local neural text to speech system (by rhasspy)

  

Mozilla's browser tts is kind of not bad, just parse and buffer one sentence at a time and it does all right.

For the backend, I've experimented with piper, which has a lot of voices and accents, though it's tricky to buffer and sync long texts.

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

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