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What are some good espeak alternatives with less robotic voices?

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[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago
  • Piper
  • CoquiTTS
  • spd-say
  • Tortoise TTS

Piper is also used by Torsten-voice and many other models are available. Its brilliant and like 2,5 steps away from implementation in screen readers and TTS engines. I hope this happens soon as the current engines are unbearable.

Espeak on Android for some reason is better than on KDE

[-] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

mimic3

[-] mcepl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mimic is by far the best I was able to find from FLOSS TTS software.

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

There are alternatives listed here too: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6215470

I find all the ones like espeak, piper, festival to be awful. The voices are OK-ish, but intonation and pronunciation are so very bad. Tortoise is OK, but slow and not for long texts. Paid services like Google, AWS or Elevenlabs are miles ahead. There is a number of CUDA-based engines (provided in the comments of the post I linked) that you supposedly can use if you have a nVidia GPU available. I don't, so they are not for me.

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