Apple introduces Digital narration for books

• TTS

  231 29,174 9.5 Python

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

  

I wanted to make a human-like reading feature for our language-learning software. Training a model isn't too hard using something like https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS.

The weak link was the available free/open datasets. You needed a single speaker with a pleasant voice, 20hrs+ material from varied sources, recorded in a good recording enviroment with a good mic etc. For English, the default was LJSpeech, which doesn't fulfill all these requirements. I say 'was', as I haven't followed developments recently.

Last year we decided to make our own dataset with a Irish woman, Jenny. She has a soft Irish lilt.

Never got around around to training the model, but I will upload the raw audio and prompts here in a few hours (need to pay my internet bill in town..):

https://github.com/dioco-group/jenny-tts-dataset/blob/main/R...

• jenny-tts-dataset

  2 36 10.0

  A high-quality, varied ~30hr voice dataset suitable for training a TTS model

  

I wanted to make a human-like reading feature for our language-learning software. Training a model isn't too hard using something like https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS.

The weak link was the available free/open datasets. You needed a single speaker with a pleasant voice, 20hrs+ material from varied sources, recorded in a good recording enviroment with a good mic etc. For English, the default was LJSpeech, which doesn't fulfill all these requirements. I say 'was', as I haven't followed developments recently.

Last year we decided to make our own dataset with a Irish woman, Jenny. She has a soft Irish lilt.

Never got around around to training the model, but I will upload the raw audio and prompts here in a few hours (need to pay my internet bill in town..):

https://github.com/dioco-group/jenny-tts-dataset/blob/main/R...

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• yt-dlp

  2,360 70,636 9.8 Python

  A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

  

You'll need to install https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#installation before you can use that. As you can see, the "script" is just so to add a options `-x` (extract audio) and `--audio-format mp3` to convert to mp3 in the end.

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