3 HN users recommended this demo2 months2021–2023score 2
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN points to it as proof that offline TTS can sound natural, relevant to private voice assistant alternatives.
A demonstration of Larynx, an offline open source neural text-to-speech system supporting nine languages. The video itself is narrated with a Larynx-generated voice.
“Larynx is significantly ahead in terms of quality of output” (HN, 2021)
It's unfortunate that another comment that links to Rhasspy has been downvoted (I assume because it lacked any other context) so I wanted to mention the project with some additional context: [link] While I've not used the entire Rhasspy project myself (but trying it out is on the long list of things to do :) ) I have used the offline Text-To-Speech sub-project Larynx... ...and it is amazing ! Larynx is significantly ahead in terms of quality of output & variety of voices (fifty--across multiple languages, accents & genders) of any other FLOSS Text-To-Speech project I've tried. I think the relative new-ness of the project is part of the reason Larynx ( [link] ) currently flies under the radar. If the rest of Rhasspy is as good as Larynx I'd imagine it's worth trying out. Larynx demo video: [this video] Samples of pre-trained voices: [link]
yeah, [this video] at the end says southern female english [link] but the sample is NOT like the video, maybe the samples are old. the video is a great example
Found this project the other day that is probably good enough quality for most uses i.e. sounds very natural and not like a robot from the 1980s and doesn't require a cloud service and can run on modest hardware [link] Demo: [this video]
So, after actually watching the demo video all the way through, it seems the video is narrated by a Larynx-produced voice "southern_english_female": [this video] While I appreciate the cinematic aspect of the confirmation/"reveal" at the conclusion of the video, ironically--because the quality is so good--since most people won't get through a 7 minute video, it would be entirely possible to not realise the narration itself is generated. So I'd encourage you to consider stating it a little more up front. (Also, based on the release dates it seems like this project is relatively young which explains why it's not very well known at this point.)
Demo narrated by Larynx-generated voice, revealed at the end
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