hpr4072 :: Piper text to speech engine
Archer72 talks about Piper TTS using a Piper voice
Hosted by Archer72 on Tuesday, 2024-03-12 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Piper, TTS, Text to speech, Voice synthesis.
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The show is available on the Internet Archive at: https://archive.org/details/hpr4072
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Using Piper
Github
Piper
Thorsten-Voice
README
Videos
Create your AI digital voice clone locally with Piper TTS | Tutorial
Thorsten-Voice
Voices
Voice repo
Voice sample testing
Clone voices
Clone this model repository
Make sure you have git-lfs installed
In my case on Fedora 39
sudo dnf install git-lfs | teelog
Aside
I use an alias to create a log file with a date stamp
alias teelog='tee -a ~/logfiles/dump_`date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S"`.log'
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices
# if you want to clone without large files – just their pointers
# prepend your git clone with the following env var:
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1
Sample usage
echo 'Welcome to the world of speech synthesis!' | ./piper --model en_US-lessac-medium.onnx --output_file welcome.wav
Usage from a text file
cat sample/hamlet_to_be.txt | piper --model ~/git/piper/etc/test_voice.onnx --output_file hamlet_to-be_piper_sample_voice.wav