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Text-to-speech options? (beehaw.org)

submitted 8 months ago by friendly_ghost@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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?

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[–] Paragone@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

IF they've the horsepower to run it, I gather there is a reversal of Whisper, called WhisperSpeech, or something like that, which uses an LLM to convert text to speech.

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Here: found it for you.

https://github.com/collabora/WhisperSpeech