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tortoise-tts
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ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
The quality also depends on the type of model. I'm not really sure what ESpeak-ng actually uses? The classical TTS approaches often use some statistical model (e.g. HMM) + some vocoder. You can get to intelligible speech pretty easily but the quality is bad (w.r.t. how natural it sounds).
There are better open source TTS models. E.g. check https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts or https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2. Or here for more: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/12kjof5/d_...
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 12 February 2024
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OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning
I use Tortoise TTS. It's slow, a little clunky, and sometimes the output gets downright weird. But it's the best quality-oriented TTS I've found that I can run locally.
https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
- [discussion] text to voice generation for textbooks
- DALL-E 3: Improving image generation with better captions [pdf]
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Open Source Libraries
neonbjb/tortoise-tts
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Running Tortoise-TTS - IndexError: List out of range
EDIT: It appears to be the exact same issue as this
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My Deep Learning Rig
It was primarily being used to train TTS models (see https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts), which largely fit into a single GPUs memory. So, for data parallelism, x8 PCIe isn't that much of a concern.
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PlayHT2.0: State-of-the-Art Generative Voice AI Model for Conversational Speech
Previously TortoiseTTS was associated with PlayHT in some way, although the exact connection is a bit vague [0].
From the descriptions here it sounds a lot like AudioLM / SPEAR TTS / some of Meta's recent multilingual TTS approaches, although those models are not open source, sounds like PlayHT's approach is in a similar spirit. The discussion of "mel tokens" is closer to what I would call the classic TTS pipeline in many ways... PlayHT has generally been kind of closed about what they used, would be interesting to know more.
I assume the key factor here is high quality, emotive audio with good data cleaning processes. Probably not even a lot of data, at least in the scale of "a lot" in speech, e.g. ASR (millions of hours) or TTS (hundreds to thousands). As opposed to some radically new architectural piece never before seen in the literature, there are lots of really nice tools for emotive and expressive TTS buried in recent years of publications.
Tacotron 2 is perfectly capable of this type of stuff as well, as shown by Dessa [1] a few years ago (this writeup is a nice intro to TTS concepts). With the limit largely being, at some point you haven't heard certain phonetic sounds before in a voice, and need to do something to get plausible outcomes for new voices.
[0] Discussion here https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts/issues/182#issuecomm...
[1] https://medium.com/dessa-news/realtalk-how-it-works-94c1afda...
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Comparing Tortoise and Bark for Voice Synthesis
Tortoise GitHub repo - Source code, documentation, and usage guide
whisper
- Creando Subtítulos Automáticos para Vídeos con Python, Faster-Whisper, FFmpeg, Streamlit, Pillow
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Why I Care Deeply About Web Accessibility And You Should Too
Let’s not talk about local models as the hardware requirements are way beyond most of these people’s reach. I have a MacBook Air with an M2 chip and 8GB of RAM and can hardly run Whisper locally, so I use this HuggingFace space.
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How I built NotesGPT – a full-stack AI voice note app
Last week, I launched notesGPT, a free and open source voice note app that has 35,000 visitors, 7,000 users, and over 1,000 GitHub stars so far in the last week. It allows you to record a voice note, transcribes it uses Whisper, and uses Mixtral via Together to extract action items and display them in an action items view. It’s also fully open source and comes equipped with authentication, storage, vector search, action items, and is fully responsive on mobile for ease of use.
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Ask HN: Can AI break a speech audio into individual words?
I found a pretty good discussion in the topic here:
https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/1243
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WhisperSpeech – An Open Source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
There is a plot of language performance on their repo: https://github.com/openai/whisper
I am not aware of a multi-lingual leaderboard for speech recognition models.
- Ask HN: AI that allows you to make phone calls in a language you don't speak?
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Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?
I don't know how OP does it, but here's how I'd do it:
* Generate a transcript by runing Whisper against the podcast audio file: https://github.com/openai/whisper
* Upload transcript to ChatGPT and ask it to summarize.
* Automate all the above.
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Need advice
Ahh, that makes sense. I've been building something like that, but only from other languages into English using Whisper
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Subtitle is now open-source
Whisper already generates subtitles[0], supporting VTT and SRT so this is just a thin wrapper around that.
[0]: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/e58f28804528831904c3b...
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StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven Labs quality Text To Speech
> although it does require you to wear headphones so the bot doesn't hear itself and get interrupted.
Maybe you can rely on some sort of speaker identification to sort this out?
https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264
What are some alternatives?
TTS - 🐸💬 - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production
vosk-api - Offline speech recognition API for Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and servers with Python, Java, C# and Node
bark - 🔊 Text-Prompted Generative Audio Model
silero-vad - Silero VAD: pre-trained enterprise-grade Voice Activity Detector
Real-Time-Voice-Cloning - Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time
buzz - Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
piper - A fast, local neural text to speech system
NeMo - A scalable generative AI framework built for researchers and developers working on Large Language Models, Multimodal, and Speech AI (Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech)
tacotron2 - Tacotron 2 - PyTorch implementation with faster-than-realtime inference
whisper.cpp - Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
larynx - End to end text to speech system using gruut and onnx
text-generation-webui - A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2, llama.cpp (GGUF), Llama models.