What does HackerNews think of piper?

Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning | Oct 2023

> What's the best open source text to speech?

I haven't re-evaluated OSS TTS options for a few months but from my own experience earlier in the year I've been pleased with the results I've gotten from Piper:

* https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

I've primarily used it with the LibriTTS-based voices due to their license but if it's for personal local use you can probably use some of the other even higher quality voices.

The official samples are here: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/

Here's a small number of pre-rendered samples I've used that were generated from a WIP Piper port of my Dialogue Tool[0] project: https://rancidbacon.gitlab.io/piper-tts-demos/

While it's not perfect & output quality varies for a number of reasons, I've been using it because it's MIT licensed & there's multiple diverse voice options with licenses that suit my purposes.

(Piper and its predecessors Larynx & Mimic3 are significantly ahead of where other FLOSS options had been up until their existence in terms of quality.)

[0] https://rancidbacon.itch.io/dialogue-tool-for-larynx-text-to...

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Edit to add links to some of my notes related to FLOSS TTS, in case they're of interest:

* https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/notes_public/-/blob/main/note...

Meta says its new speech-generating AI tool is too dangerous to release | Jun 2023

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I think this is the link. Not 100% sure though, is this correct?

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

The Work of the Audiobook | May 2023

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Thanks for sharing! This is something I'm interested in as well. There's also Piper TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

Quality seems fairly similar to Coqui-TTS, though maybe the intonation is a bit off.

I've generated a bunch of samples for comparison here: https://gitlab.com/danhawkes/piper-tts-test

Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features | May 2023

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You may want to check out Rhasspy/Piper [0,1]. The Piper page includes training instructions.

[0] https://github.com/rhasspy

[1] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

Show HN: Willow – Open-Source Privacy-Focused Voice Assistant Hardware | May 2023

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The "TTS Output" and "Audio on device" sections make it seem like there is no spoken output, only status beeps.

A former Mycroft dev, Michael Hansen[1], is still building several year-of-the-voice projects after he was let go. I'm especially excited about Piper[2], which is a C++/py alternative to Mimic3.

[1] https://github.com/synesthesiam [2] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

Piper: A proposal for a graphy pipe-based build system | Apr 2023

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https://github.com/rhasspy/piper I was confused as well