Alternative to eSpeak?

Just in order to keep new interesting TTS projects in this pipeline.
The Home-Assistant team is working on Piper TTS which sounds pretty decent

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

Check out as well: https://youtu.be/rjq5eZoWWSo

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TTS is super important for us cyclists. And I believe that cyclists, especially the urban, lifestyle kind are a great market for sustainability- and/or privacy oriented phones.

Actually I use this project on my android phone : https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx
And the apk for your language is here : https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html
I hope this discovery has helped some of you :pray:
This project use piper for the model and in french he’s sound really good. But some version exist with the coqui AI model if you want…

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That sounds promising indeed! I’m testing it. Thanks for the links! :wink:

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