I’m setting up a laptop with Mint (Cinnamon) for a person who needs text-to-speech software. It seems like most of the nice-sounding ones are proprietary. Any recommendations for FOSS alternatives? And any ideas why this is an underdeveloped area for open source?

  • ninpnin@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    AFAIK all of the state of the art TTS models are openly available on huggingface.co or similar. However, I’m not sure if there are nice front ends/UIs for them