What FOSS TTS should I use?

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Amicchan@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨asklemmy@lemmy.ml⁩

I can't find an okish TTS to use. I tried espeak; I hate the way it sounds, though I could customize the sound.

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ajr@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
I think mozilla TTS is the best. But this questions should have been asked in /c/Open Source.

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- cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  My understanding is that Mozilla is continuing to build the CommonVoice dataset for training speech models, but they are no longer developing TTS or STT software themselves.
  
  https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS is the new home of what was Mozilla's TTS project. Coqui is a new company where some of the former mozilla speech team ended up. Coqui is continuing to develop both the TTS and STT code and models.
  
  https://tts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  
  https://stt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  
  There are a number of other much older free software TTS options, but Coqui's (formerly Mozilla's) is by far the best one I've heard.
  
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  - monobot@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Here is page with samples, it sounds pretty good: https://erogol.github.io/ddc-samples/
    
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  - dessalines@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Wow coqui sounds really good, i'm gonna have find a command line thing of that.
    
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