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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by dv35z on Monday July 24, 2023 @03:51PM (#36853332)
I used Amazon Polly (text to speech engine) on a project a few years ago - the “neural” voices were decent. I’ve since heard much better synthetic voice engines, but don’t know names. What’s the best quality one you have found recently?
Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by colechristensen on Monday July 24, 2023 @06:06PM (#36854914)
My interests are in local inference, so a service like Amazon Polly doesn't fit my needs.

I haven't tried anything so far that I actually liked so my answer to "what's the best quality I have found?" is none.

The reverse though, OpenAI's Whisper for speech to text has been amazing, far exceeding my expectations.

Having just looked again I found a list at huggingface that I will be poking through in my spare time soon.

https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-to-speech&so...