Dear all, does someone here produce audio via Text-To-Speech (TTS) from Org sources? I plan to do that in the context of emacs-reveal to generate voice-over for reveal.js presentations, with open questions [1] concerning my initial, experimental approach.
Currently, I like the default model of Coqui-AI TTS [2] and Microsoft SpeechT5 [3] best. Any suggestions for free and open TTS implementations that produce even better results? Other models of Coqui-AI? The solution should work without GPU support, which seems to rule out Suno Bark [4]. The above models do not pronounce numbers/digits, and they fail to pronounce most acronyms. In a preprocessing step I could replace those. I use preprocessing anyways to get rid of Org markup that might confuse the language models. Anyone here who did that already? Maybe gruut [5] in conjunction with SSML [6] handling? Any other suggestions? Best wishes Jens [1] https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal/-/issues/20 [2] https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/ [3] https://huggingface.co/microsoft/speecht5_tts [4] https://github.com/suno-ai/bark [5] https://github.com/rhasspy/gruut [6] https://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/
