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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 neoluddite on 2025-01-02 at 23:05

@mkennedy this sounds very @KathyReid areas

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Written by Kathy Reid on 2025-01-02 at 23:12

@neoluddite @mkennedy thx for the tag - have you seen

https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

Also this post - very out of date as Mozilla TTS is no longer supported and hasn't been for 3 years.

The work Mike Hansen did for Mimic 3 is now in Home Assistant, and I have been very impressed by it

https://www.datacamp.com/blog/best-open-source-text-to-speech-tts-engines

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Written by Michael Kennedy on 2025-01-02 at 23:18

@KathyReid @neoluddite Thanks! I did check that one out. But decided against it because their company's website has this message as the H1. :(

Coqui isshutting down.

Thank you for all your support! ❤️

I don't want to build on a foundation that's about to vanish.

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Written by Kathy Reid on 2025-01-03 at 00:30

@mkennedy @neoluddite fair point - there has also been a general decline in open source TTS across the board, similar to STTvwith the release of Whisperer

Interested to hear what you decide on.

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