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hpr4072 :: Piper text to speech engine

Archer72 talks about Piper TTS using a Piper voice

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Piper, TTS, Text to speech, Voice synthesis. 1.

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Using Piper

Github

Piper

Piper Github

Thorsten-Voice

Thorsten-Voice Github

README

Piper Github README

Videos

Create your AI digital voice clone locally with Piper TTS | Tutorial

Create voice clone with Piper

Thorsten-Voice

Thorsten Mueller

Voices

Voice repo

Piper voices

Voice sample testing

Voice sample testing

Clone voices

Clone this model repository

Make sure you have git-lfs installed

Git lfs (Large filesystem)

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

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Comment #1 posted on 2025-05-20 10:11:54 by Archer72

Voice synthesis

I found a Firefox extension that uses Piper voices, listed as 'experimental'

It is called Read Aloud
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-aloud

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