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Web version: https://clowerweb.github.io/kitten-tts-web-demo/ It sounds ok, but impressive for the size.
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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.
A robotic, explicitly non-natural voice would be perfectly acceptable, and even desirable, in many situations[...]it'd be enough is the speech if easy to recognize. We've had formant synths for several decades, and they're perfectly understandable and require a tiny amount of computing power, but people tend not to want to listen to them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth https://simulationcorner…
I don't mind so much the size in MB, the fact that it's pure CPU and the quality, what I do mind however is the latency. I hope it's fast. Aside: Are there any models for understanding voice to text, fully offline, without training? I will be very impressed when we will be able to have a conversation with an AI at a natural rate and not "probe, space, response"
"The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.." Average duration per generation: 1.28 seconds Characters processed per second: 30.35 -- "Um" Average duration per generation: 0.22 seconds Characters processed per second: 9.23 -- "The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.. The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.." Average duration per generation: 2.25 seconds Characters processed per second: 35.04 -- processor : 0 vendor_id : Au…
Can coqui run in cpu only?
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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.
I don't mind so much the size in MB, the fact that it's pure CPU and the quality, what I do mind however is the latency. I hope it's fast. Aside: Are there any models for understanding voice to text, fully offline, without training? I will be very impressed when we will be able to have a conversation with an AI at a natural rate and not "probe, space, response"
OpenAI's whisper is a few years old and pretty solid.
The headline feature isn’t the 25 MB footprint alone. It’s that KittenTTS is Apache-2.0. That combo means you can embed a fully offline voice in Pi Zero-class hardware or even battery-powered toys without worrying about GPUs, cloud calls, or restrictive licenses. In one stroke it turns voice everywhere from a hardware/licensing problem into a packaging problem. Quality tweaks can come later; unlocking that deployment…
eSpeak NG's data files take about 12 MB (multi-lingual).
I guess this one may generate more natural-sounding speech, but older or lower-end computers were capable of decent speech synthesis previously as well.