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Re:Common Voice by dan-robertson on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @04:18PM (#38537034)
Do you know if it’s been extracted into a standalone library? The state of the open source TTS seems to not be great. Presumably the data for a voice is harder to put together than training a speech to text system like whisper.
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Re:Common Voice by miki123211 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:01PM (#38537542)
The voices don't come from the browsers themselves, but from operating systems and their underlying TTS APIs, SAPI on Windows, Speech Dispatcher on Linux and AVSpeechSynthesizer on Apple Devices. If you install a third-party voice compatible with one of these, the browsers will pick that up.
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Re:Common Voice by malermeister on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:48AM (#38543146)
This is a reasonably good open source local TTS that's fast enough to use in home automation: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
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