I can’t find an okish TTS to use. I tried espeak; I hate the way it sounds, though I could customize the sound.
I think mozilla TTS is the best. But this questions should have been asked in Open Source.
My understanding is that Mozilla is continuing to build the CommonVoice dataset for training speech models, but they are no longer developing TTS or STT software themselves.
https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS is the new home of what was Mozilla’s TTS project. Coqui is a new company where some of the former mozilla speech team ended up. Coqui is continuing to develop both the TTS and STT code and models.
There are a number of other much older free software TTS options, but Coqui’s (formerly Mozilla’s) is by far the best one I’ve heard.
Here is page with samples, it sounds pretty good: https://erogol.github.io/ddc-samples/
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I didn’t notice that when i tried it before but now I see what you mean… that is really irritating :(
Also, just now I tried to have it just speak the word “hello” (no punctuation) and got something like “hello oh oh oh oh” with a bit of tonal variation in the strange sounds at the end. So, yeah, I guess they’ve got a ways to go still. Other short phrases I’m trying have good results, but somehow “hello” produces these odd sounds.
Wow coqui sounds really good, i’m gonna have find a command line thing of that.
Is there a way to install these on android?