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silero-models
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Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
I doubt it's currently actually "the best open source text to speech", but the answer I came up with when throwing a couple of hours at the problem some months ago was "Silero" [0, 1].
Following the "standalone" guide [2], it was pretty trivial to make the model render my sample text in about 100 English "voices" (many of which were similar to each other, and in varying quality). Sampling those, I got about 10 that were pretty "good". And maybe 6 that were the "best ones" (pretty natural, not annoying to listen to).
IIRC the license was free for noncommercial use only. I'm not sure exactly "how open source" they are, but it was simple to install the dependencies and write the basic Python to try it out; I had to write a for loop to try all the voices like I wanted. I ended using something else for the project for other reasons, but this could still be fairly good backup option for some use cases IMO.
[0] https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models#text-to-speech
- What's the best text-to-speech free non-cloud software?
- Hey can anyone else add the text to speech
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Messing around with a TTS extension
Glados was the first experiment. I moved on to silero afterwards: https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models
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Ask HN: Open-source video transcribing software?
Some months ago I tried the Silero Models: https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models
With the audio sources I had, in English, the transcription had many mistakes. The good side is that installing and running the software worked as described in their documentation, so maybe it’s worth giving it a try by yourself.
- Silero V3:20种语言的快速高质量文本到语音,有173种声音 (Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languages with 173 voices)
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Hacker News top posts: Jun 20, 2022
Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languages with 173 voices\ (56 comments)
- Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languages with 173 voices
OCRmyPDF
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TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
Try https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF - it uses Tesseract behind the scenes and it absolutely brilliant.
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 19 Feb 2024
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Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
I recommend running any such PDFs through OCRmyPDF.
https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
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A better document viewer
If by "like a photocopy" you mean the file contains images of text rather than text, the MacOS viewer presumably does OCR on the images. I don't know if there's a Linux document viewer with that capability built-in, but a quick search turned up the standalone tool OCRmyPDF.
- Gibts ein (CLI) tool, das Kontrast und Helligkeit von gescannten Textdokumenten dynamisch anpasst?
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OCR for a full pdf on Neoreader
For anyone interested I solved the problem by first ocr files through the free and open source software ocrmypdf avaible here
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ELI5: why is PDF such a widespread text format, instead of a format that's actually easier to edit?
ocrmypdf is nice for stuff like that.
- Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer
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massive crop and OCR newspaper
Use imagemagick to convert them to PDF and ocrmypdf to straighten and OCR. See this explanation.
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OCR pdf and just keep the OCR text
Fair enough, maybe this might work for you, it should seperate the text from image anyway and if you have Adobe acrobat it should be able delete the background too with the edit function. It may already be able to do that if you haven't tried it
What are some alternatives?
TTS - 🐸💬 - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production
PaddleOCR - Awesome multilingual OCR toolkits based on PaddlePaddle (practical ultra lightweight OCR system, support 80+ languages recognition, provide data annotation and synthesis tools, support training and deployment among server, mobile, embedded and IoT devices)
Real-Time-Voice-Cloning - Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
DeepSpeech - DeepSpeech is an open source embedded (offline, on-device) speech-to-text engine which can run in real time on devices ranging from a Raspberry Pi 4 to high power GPU servers.
tesserocr - A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API
piper - A fast, local neural text to speech system
Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
Serpent.AI - Game Agent Framework. Helping you create AIs / Bots that learn to play any game you own!
invoice2data - Extract structured data from PDF invoices
Porcupine - On-device wake word detection powered by deep learning
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF