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this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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I use piper TTS. Probably not as good as the fancy AI APIs, but it's all local and runs from command line and is good enough for my purposes. YMMV.
For setting up Piper TTS on Desktop Linux: https://pied.mikeasoft.com/
I was disappointed with this at first, until I loaded the "Cori" voiceset. It outshines the others
The ones I liked the most was Kusal and Lessac.
F5-TTS. Only needs 15 seconds of reference audio and you're good to go.
Depends on your setup, but generally I recommend: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
If you have an available GPU for processing it's insanely quick and better than OpenAI's whisper.
this is speech-to-text! OP is looking for text-to-speech.
There’s zonos, and I heard of another one called GPTsovit or something like that, but I haven’t tried that one. Zonos is pretty easy to setup and run though. Another one is Kokoro, search for Kokoro TTS to find it on google.
RHVoice works well enough for me. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android/