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rhasspy / piper

A fast, local neural text to speech system
https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
MIT License
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Models not using espeak #455

Open amakropoulos opened 1 month ago

amakropoulos commented 1 month ago

Hi, thank you for this awesome library 💥!

I'd like to use it in the Unity engine but I'm concerned about the license issue (#93). Are there any good quality models not using the espeak library?

synesthesiam commented 1 month ago

Not yet, unfortunately. Replacing eSpeak is a significant undertaking, especially across so many languages.

I assume you're using Piper in Unity with English? Do you have some examples of the sorts of numbers you deal with, such as dates, times, currency, etc.? I'm trying to prioritize.

amakropoulos commented 1 month ago

Thank you for the quick reply!

I have developed LLM for Unity that integrates LLMs into Unity. I'm looking into how to add TTS functionality and Piper is the only open-source option in the C world (plus it's great 🙂!).

English would be sufficient for now, but I think developers would need all the different numbers.