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Written by Michael Kennedy on 2025-01-02 at 03:27

Need some advice:

I'm looking for an open source text-to-speech library I can run locally or in a server. I needs to be pretty pleasant to listen to even if generation takes a bit longer. Ideally #python as the language but I'm open to looking around.

Recommendations? Found StyleTTS2 so far.

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Written by Jonathan Hartley on 2025-01-02 at 13:46

@mkennedy I tried this myself recently, and found it harder than I expected. Lots of people saying "just use one of the many amazing modern AI generated systems, download a voice you like, and you are good". But the options I tried were all a mess and hard to install.

I settled on piper, which only works against Python <= 3.10 (eye roll). I have dead snakes ppa installed so this Python is just an apt install for me...

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Written by Jonathan Hartley on 2025-01-02 at 13:47

@mkennedy On Ubuntu/Pop!OS, I ended up writing my own script to wrap the installation of piper and its dependencies, downloading a voice, and the ultimate invocation:

https://github.com/tartley/dotfiles/blob/main/bin/say

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Written by Jonathan Hartley on 2025-01-02 at 13:48

@mkennedy I would love to hear if there are better options or I'm doing it wrong.

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Written by Jonathan Hartley on 2025-01-02 at 13:53

@mkennedy It's possible to make a less clumsy invocation of piper in bash which pipes the output directly into aplay, but this fails if your text to speak includes a period, because piper does some sort of seek on the output if it contains multiple sentences.

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Toot

Written by Jonathan Hartley on 2025-01-02 at 13:53

@mkennedy (eye roll again)

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Written by Michael Kennedy on 2025-01-02 at 15:40

@tartley Thanks for all of this Jonathan! I'm starting to get the same feeling of clumsy academic projects that aren't installable or very hard to do so.

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