Making open-source text to speech sound right: ranked voices, text normalization and one engine for Python and the browser

Open text-to-speech models have become small and fast enough to run anywhere. Piper voices run faster than real time on a laptop CPU. But when we built the text-to-speech tool on Loudness.ai, three problems stood between "it runs" and "it sounds right". loudness-tts is what we built to solve them, and it is free and open source. 1. Which voice?... Weiterlesen: Making open-source text to speech sound right: ranked voices, text no…