I know it's old at this point and doesn't use the fancy new tech, but Mycroft's Mimic 3 is still pretty impressive and is small enough to fit comfortably and generate speech in real time on a raspberry pi [0]. Some of their voices are better than others, but the best of them are definitely equal to the examples of WhisperSpeech given here. [0] https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
So dumb, use Mimic3 for free, and you can also use SMML tags so you can change voices for different characters, and modulate the speech to better fit the book! Source: over 1 year ago
You might want to check out Mimic 3 by the Mycroft team. Its also open source and runs offline. https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
I started out with mycroft which has mimic 3 build in. But you can run it just stand alone as well and quite easy to set up. https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/. Source: almost 2 years ago
So far the Mimic3 from Mycroft has been the best I've seen. With the hifi-tts_low being my favorite English voice. It also support SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) which can allow for more fine tuning on the output (like volume, changes voices, speach rate, specific Phonemes, etc). Source: almost 2 years ago
I've been playing with mimic 3 from Mycroft lately. It's pretty usable out of the box and is self hostable. https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I installed their self-hosted minic3 tts the other day to add a voice to my home assistant on prem smart home. It sounds unbelievably good compared to the picotts crap I was using before. Pretty stoked. Now I want to try getting the voice assistant hooked up too. https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
It runs locally and in real-time on a Pi 4, but sounds fantastic. You can hear the range of languages and voices here: https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/. Source: about 2 years ago
Learn Linux TV demo'd Mimic 3 , how to use it, where to download it, and how you can get "under the hood". Source: over 2 years ago
We are aiming for a dedicated Windows release too. If you want to get notified about specific releases you can drop your email in here and select the platforms you care about: Https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/. Source: over 2 years ago
That's some good feedback thanks! The other option is to jump on https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/ and use the "Hear my voices" tool. There are three drop-downs:. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
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