Search Results for "piper"

...It reads each chapter from an EPUB file, generates audio using a chosen text-to-speech backend, and outputs separate MP3 files with chapter titles preserved as metadata to make navigation easier. The project supports multiple TTS providers, including Microsoft Azure TTS, EdgeTTS, OpenAI TTS, local Piper, and Kokoro via an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, allowing users to choose between cloud and self-hosted voices. A recent addition is a Gradio-based WebUI, which wraps all configuration options in a graphical interface for users who prefer not to work with the command line. The tool offers advanced options such as controlling chapter ranges, handling paragraph detection via newline modes, removing endnote markers, and using regex-based search-and-replace files to tweak pronunciations. ...

...It is designed around a streaming model: you can feed it text incrementally (for example, as an LLM responds) and get audio output almost immediately, which keeps end-to-end latency very low. The library is engine-agnostic and plugs into a wide range of cloud and local TTS systems, including OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Azure, Coqui, Piper, StyleTTS2, Edge TTS, Google TTS, system TTS and others, so you can swap providers without rewriting your pipeline. It supports both internet-based engines and fully local engines, which lets you choose between privacy, cost, and quality trade-offs. RealtimeTTS also includes robustness features such as automatic fallbacks when a backend fails, so production systems can stay responsive even if one TTS provider is temporarily unavailable.

...Its component-based design lets developers replace individual models without rewriting the full application. The project integrates hosted services such as OpenAI, Groq, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, and Cartesia while also supporting local model workflows through Ollama and Piper. It records speech from a microphone, converts it into text, generates a response, and plays synthesized audio. Centralized configuration and environment variables manage providers, model selections, endpoints, and API credentials. The repository is intended for voice technology research, rapid prototyping, and comparison of different processing pipelines. ...

...It emphasizes privacy and predictability by using traditional programming, rule-based intent parsing, and established machine learning tools rather than large language models, meaning there are no per-token API costs and deterministic behavior. The assistant offers features such as voice control using fully local speech-to-text (Whisper) and text-to-speech (Piper) capabilities, news aggregation with extractive summarization, and smart home or Bluetooth device control. SafeClaw supports multiple channels, including CLI and Telegram, and avoids prompt injection risk because it doesn’t rely on LLMs for core operations.