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TTS voices that sound nice? (thorsten-voice.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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There are multiple screenreaders but their voices simply suck. KDEs espeak has way worse voices than Android eSpeak for some reason.

There is Thorsten Voice, a grest project that sounds really nice.

Not sure if he has a espeak dataset too.

Do you know any others?

Its essential for blind people, I dont think any blind person uses Linux if they have to hear these robot voices every day.

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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've recently made aware of the bark project. Especially the bark-ui project. It takes a long time to run but it does work. Sometimes it makes cursed stuff too: https://social.rootaccess.org/@michaelc/111277260439738652

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow that is crazy! 10seconds sounds like an unnecessary flex though, wouldnt like 30min/all sounds be best?

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a tiny laptop with the literal bare minimum to get this running haha. Your probably right but the models explode your memory pretty quick.

I did get some really good audio out of this model after a while. I threw the first chapter of the hobbit at it and it seemed to be doing ok. It's better than espeak and you only need to do it once to get audiobooks out.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have to check that! But wait is that Windows only?

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I got it working on Ubuntu/PopOS.