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Re:WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system buil... by jpcl on Thursday January 18, 2024 @12:16PM (#39044451)
https://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/audiobooki/ is the Polish audiobook collection.

The English audiobooks are public domain recordings from LibriVox (via the LibriLight dataset).

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Re:WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system buil... by e12e on Thursday January 18, 2024 @02:15PM (#39046257)
Thank you. Is the Polish collection also a volunteer effort?

Link to librivox for others: https://librivox.org/

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Re:WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system buil... by jpcl on Friday January 19, 2024 @06:59AM (#39054450)
Not really, the Polish effort is run by a non-profit and hired professional voice actors.
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