Open Source Python Text to Speech Software - Page 5

WaveRNN is a PyTorch implementation of DeepMind’s WaveRNN vocoder, bundled with a Tacotron-style TTS front end to form a complete text-to-speech stack. As a vocoder, WaveRNN models raw audio with a compact recurrent neural network that can generate high-quality waveforms more efficiently than many traditional autoregressive models. The repository includes scripts and code for preprocessing datasets such as LJSpeech, training Tacotron to produce mel spectrograms, training WaveRNN on those spectrograms (with optional GTA data), and finally generating audio. A quick_start.py script allows users to immediately synthesize example sentences from a pretrained model and inspect both generated audio and attention plots. For custom TTS, the project guides you through training Tacotron, forcing GTA spectrogram export when desired, training WaveRNN with or without GTA, and then running joint generation.

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: Whisper is used to produce semantic tokens, EnCodec compresses the waveform into acoustic tokens, and Vocos reconstructs high-fidelity audio from those tokens. The repository includes notebooks and scripts for inference, long-form synthesis, and finetuning, as well as pre-trained models and converted datasets hosted on Hugging Face. Performance optimizations like torch.compile, KV-caching, and architectural tweaks allow the main model to reach up to 12× real-time speed on a consumer RTX 4090.

YandexStation is a Home Assistant custom component that integrates Yandex-branded smart speakers and other devices with Alice into a unified smart home automation environment. It supports both local and cloud control, depending on the device type, with Yandex speakers often supporting both modes and third-party speakers typically limited to cloud control. The integration exposes playback and volume controls, as well as text-to-speech capabilities that send spoken messages in Alice’s voice directly to the speakers. It also lets you send arbitrary text commands as if you were talking to Alice, enabling scenarios such as “play my music,” launching routines, or querying information via Home Assistant automations. In local control mode, the component can read back what is currently playing, including album art, and supports seeking and track skipping, which is more limited in cloud-only mode.

shuyuan is a project oriented around reading and knowledge consumption, especially targeting large-scale text content such as books, articles, or educational material. The name suggests “academy” or “study hall,” and the tool aims to help users ingest, organize, and manage reading content — possibly offering features like text parsing, annotation, metadata generation, translation, or storage for later reference. The repository is set up to support document ingestion, indexing, and maybe some AI-aided summarization or lookup functions, which helps users convert large text corpora into a structured, searchable knowledge base. For learners, researchers, or avid readers, Shuyuan offers a way to bridge from plain text files or eBooks into a manageable, interactive resource — one where notes, references, and reading progress can be tracked. It likely supports different input formats (text, HTML, PDF), and may integrate optional translation or text normalization tools.

uListen is a TTS(Text To Speech) application. It can TALK you the web pages, chm files, pdf files and word files and plain text files.