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Developers and hobbyists searching for a solution to improve their neural text to speech operations
About Piper TTS
Piper is a fast, local neural text-to-speech (TTS) system optimized for devices like the Raspberry Pi 4, designed to deliver high-quality speech synthesis without relying on cloud services. It utilizes neural network models trained with VITS and exported to ONNX Runtime, enabling efficient and natural-sounding speech generation. Piper supports a wide range of languages, including English (US and UK), Spanish (Spain and Mexico), French, German, and many others, with voices available for download. Users can run Piper via the command line or integrate it into Python applications using the piper-tts package. The system allows for real-time audio streaming, JSON input for batch processing, and supports multi-speaker models. Piper relies on espeak-ng for phoneme generation, converting text into phonemes before synthesizing speech. It is employed in various projects such as Home Assistant, Rhasspy 3, NVDA, and others.
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Rhasspy
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github.com/rhasspy/piper
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