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Text-to-speech options? (beehaw.org)

submitted 6 months ago by friendly_ghost@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I'm setting up a laptop with Mint (Cinnamon) for a person who needs text-to-speech software. It seems like most of the nice-sounding ones are proprietary. Any recommendations for FOSS alternatives? And any ideas why this is an underdeveloped area for open source?

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[–] valvin@beehaw.org 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

TTS with coqui xTTS is fun to run with a known voice (10sec wav file is enought). It requires some resources but far less than STT like faster-whisper. I think the main issue is not running them but integrate them with the OS/softwares.

[–] mariah@feddit.rocks 1 points 6 months ago

I tried tts but i get a error trying to tts from a wav file