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Hmm the quality is not so impressive. I'm looking for a really naturally sounding model. Not very happy with piper/kokoro, XTTS was a bit complex to set up. For STT whisper is really amazing. But I miss a good TTS. And I don't mind throwing GPU power at it. But anyway. this isn't it either, this sounds worse than kokoro.
While I think this is indeed impressive and has a specific use case (e.g. in the embedded sector), I'm not totally convinced that the quality is good enough to replace bigger models.
With fish-speech[1] and f5-tts[2] there are at least 2 open source models pushing the quality limits of offline text-to-speech. I tested F5-TTS with an old NVidia 1660 (6GB VRAM) and it worked ok-ish, so running it on a little more modern hardware will not cost you a fortune and produce MUCH higher quality with multi-language and zero-shot support.
For Android there is SherpaTTS[3], which plays pretty well with most TTS Applications.
1: https://github.com/fishaudio/fish-speech
Okay, lots of details information and example code, great. But skimming through I didn’t see any audio samples to judge the quality?
They posted a demo on reddit[0]. It sounds amazing given the tiny size. [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1mhyzp7/kitten_...
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Does anybody find it funny that sci-fi movies have to heavily distort "robot voices" to make them sound "convincingly robotic"? A robotic, explicitly non-natural voice would be perfectly acceptable, and even desirable, in many situations. I don't expect a smart toaster to talk like a BBC host; it'd be enough is the speech if easy to recognize.
This one is at least an interesting idea: https://genderlessvoice.com/
Web version: https://clowerweb.github.io/kitten-tts-web-demo/ It sounds ok, but impressive for the size.
Doesn't seem to work with thai.
It would be great if the training data were released too!
say is only 193K on MacOS ls -lah /usr/bin/say -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 193K 15 Nov 2024 /usr/bin/say Usage: M1-Mac-mini ~ % say "hello world this is the kitten TTS model speaking"
Running `man say` reveals that "this tool uses the Speech Synthesis manager", so I'm guessing the Apple Intelligence stuff is kicking in.