WhisperSpeech
An Open Source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
WhisperSpeech is an open-source text-to-speech system created by “inverting” OpenAI’s Whisper, reusing its strengths as a semantic audio model to generate speech instead of only transcribing it. The project aims to be for speech what Stable Diffusion is for images: powerful, hackable, and safe for commercial use, with code under Apache-2.0/MIT and models trained only on properly licensed data. Its architecture follows a token-based, multi-stage pipeline inspired by AudioLM and SPEAR-TTS:...