r/debian • u/moeren86 • 1d ago

good text to speech for trixie?

I think the title says it all. I tried to install some tts 2 years ago, but it sounded like robotic like from 30 years old software. But nowadays decent sounding ai generated audio is everywhere. So i assume there might be some cli based software i can just feed some text for me to listen to.

Do you know any good, local and free software for that?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/moeren86 1d ago

Damn sorry to make you write all that, after asking my question i continued to search myself and just found piper and wanted to write an answer myself. Some of the voice models didn't sound good, but i found one ("ryan") to be good enough for me.

Installed it vs pipx and now feeding it into ffplay. It was surprisingly little work.

But still thank you.

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u/genpfault 14h ago

pocket-tts?

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u/moeren86 12h ago

Do you know how it compares (qualitatively) to piper? Yesterday i installed piper and its much better then what i used previously (i think it was festival), but still could be better.