Snips Voice Platform VS Google Cloud Text-to-Speech

I am in shop for a speech recon library that works offline and can fit on a phone (Android). I used to use Snips AI (https://snips.ai/), which worked well until it was acquired by Sonos. Now the portal is down and I can't modify the model anymore. Looking for something ideally written in C or that can target C for portability. Free/libre and copyleft preferable to avoid the acquisition trap again. Tapping into the... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I'm surprised noone has mentioned https://snips.ai/. Source: almost 3 years ago

My friend was a contractor for Hindi TTS at Google https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech. - Source: Hacker News / 19 days ago

I created an Anki Deck with all of the words from Mini Kore and 300+ Mini Kore sentences from the various documents on minilanguage.com. The deck includes audio for all words and sentences. Audio was generated using the Google Text-to-Speech API. The deck can be found here:. Source: 11 months ago

Under the hood, it is powered by: - Remotion - Google TTS - OpenAI. Source: 11 months ago

Text-to-Speech: Lifelike Speech Synthesis  |  Google Cloud. Source: 11 months ago

Thanks! The synth is Dreamtonics' Synthesizer V, using the SOLARIA voice database from Eclipsed Sounds. What really sold it to me was listening to some beautifully crafted covers from this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX0lcVr9ugI), which was quite interesting and somewhat pleasant sounding for spoken word vocals, but didn't really have the range or expressiveness I was looking for. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago