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A multi-voice TTS system trained with an emphasis on quality

48 mentions on Hacker News by 42 people: 7 stories, 41 comments · first 2022-04-27 · latest 2025-03-16

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  1. …WebDAV/CalDAV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV tortoise-tts https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts/issues LLM/Large Language Model https://lmstudio.ai/ whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper/ in reverse order
    comment by genewitch · 2025-03-16 · in Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
  2. I have been having fun with this as well: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts It supports voice cloning, but I am indeed having trouble getting docker container working and the command line docs are not perfect:…
    comment by xrd · 2024-11-09 · in A CC-By Open-Source TTS Model with Voice Cloning
  3. …then company development of projects - government involvement - disappointment - cancellation. [1] https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by authorfly · 2024-10-11 · in $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst
  4. …just uses tortoise with its own high quality recorded voice data. You could definitely do the same: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by d13 · 2024-09-26 · in OpenAI Takes Its Mask Off To Reveal What It Really Is
  5. …could have used google https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-lab https://app.resemble.ai/users/sign_in https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts https://coqui.ai/blog/tts/open_xtts it was even possible 5 years ago…
    comment by defamation · 2024-08-11 · in ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user's cloned voice during testing
  6. …videos. Should be trivial to grab biographic data and voice samples from a subset of them. [1] https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts [2] https://whatsthebigdata.com/podcasts-statistics/ [3] https://elevenlabs.io/
    comment by dbspin · 2024-07-17 · in The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing
  7. …quality is bad (w.r.t. how natural it sounds). There are better open source TTS models. E.g. check https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts or https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2 . Or here for more: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/c…
    comment by albertzeyer · 2024-05-02 · in ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
  8. …with KV caching it doesn't quite get up to real time on my 4090 except with very short snippets. 1 https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by pksebben · 2024-01-18 · in WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
  9. …TTS I've found that I can run locally. It's allegedly the basis of the tech used by Eleven Labs. https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by snerbles · 2024-01-02 · in OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning
  10. …best open source TTS model that I've seen yet (TorToiSe): https://nonint.com/2023/09/23/dall-e-3/ https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by forgingahead · 2023-10-20 · in Improving image generation with better captions [pdf]
  11. It was primarily being used to train TTS models (see https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts ), which largely fit into a single GPUs memory. So, for data parallelism, x8 PCIe isn't that much of a concern.
    comment by woodson · 2023-08-16 · in My deep learning rig (2022)
  12. …in a voice, and need to do something to get plausible outcomes for new voices. [0] Discussion here https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts/issues/182#issuecomm... [1] https://www.tiktok.com/@jonathanflyfly/video/722513498370947... [1a]…
    comment by kastnerkyle · 2023-08-11 · in PlayHT2.0: State-of-the-Art Generative Voice AI Model for Conversational Speech
  13. TorToiSe ( https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts ) produces the best quality speech of any freely available model. However, its long inference times makes it impractical for voice chatbots like Gdansk.
    comment by nielsinho · 2023-08-04 · in Show HN: Gdańsk AI – full stack AI voice chatbot
  14. https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts Give this a try. You can run it locally if you have a good enough GPU. It is pretty slow at generation tho
    comment by mesmertech · 2023-06-24 · in Meta says its new speech-generating AI tool is too dangerous to release
  15. …I didn't bother to look into why they lock to that. [1] https://pypi.org/project/scipy/0.10.1/ [2] https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts/blob/0ea829d37aa6528...
    comment by oefrha · 2023-05-22 · in PrivateGPT
  16. TortoiseTTS is pretty impressive: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by cheald · 2023-04-28 · in Text-to-Audio Generation Using Instruction Tuned LLM and Latent Diffusion Model
  17. …to speed up the generation, but I don't think the author is maintaining it any longer.[0] [0] https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by forgingahead · 2023-04-25 · in QuiLLMan: Voice chat with Vicuna-13B
  18. I like https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts ; it doesn't do singing, but the voice reproduction is very good and -most importantly- it's open source and you can run it locally.
    comment by gigel82 · 2023-04-19 · in NaturalSpeech 2: Zero-shot speech and singing synthesizers
  19. There are other tts projects that run faster but if you want quality: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts Follow the instructions for adding a new voice. Once your voices are added, have ChatGPT generate a conversation between the…
    comment by survirtual · 2023-04-13 · in Joe Rogan Issues Warning After AI-Generated Version of His Podcast Surfaces
  20. …my friend's voice a few weeks ago using Tortoise-TTS using 20 seconds of audio and Google Colab: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts Other friends said it sounded really like him.
    comment by prometheon1 · 2023-04-13 · in AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve got your daughter’
  21. They fine-tuned https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts Neither they nor the tortoise-tts author have made public their code/techniques for fine-tuning.
    comment by rahimnathwani · 2023-03-27 · in Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio
  22. …good. But I've got slightly better sounding cloning from Tortoise TTS, and I can run that locally: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by gigel82 · 2023-03-27 · in Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio
  23. …without a decent budget, though. Whisper (for transcription) is insanely fast and good. 1. https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by nojs · 2023-02-19 · in Talk-to-ChatGPT
  24. …something like more control over the tone which is something perhaps more suited to a product. [0] https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by Vt71fcAqt7 · 2023-02-01 · in Prime Voice AI: AI speech software
  25. Try https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by mlboss · 2023-01-13 · in This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI
  26. …and dataset size, but another datapoint https://nonint.com/2022/05/30/my-deep-learning-rig/ https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by morrisjm · 2023-01-09 · in VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
  27. I think you mean https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts (missing last "s")
    comment by jordibc · 2023-01-09 · in VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
  28. …to do one second of spoken text. There's cloud options (collab, paperspace, runpod) but still https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by morrisjm · 2023-01-09 · in VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
  29. …anyone confirm that these models really don't need an extra training phase to clone a voice? [1] https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by weinzierl · 2023-01-09 · in VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
  30. Page stopped loading on my phone because of all of the audio samples loading. Direct link to GitHub: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by codetrotter · 2023-01-06 · in VALL-E: Neural codec language models are zero-shot text to speech synthesizers
  31. The best is probably tortoise but you have to run it yourself https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts here are some demos https://nonint.com/static/tortoise_v2_examples.html
    comment by theCrowing · 2023-01-01 · in Ask HN: Are there any good open source text-to-speech tools?
  32. Tortoise-TTS (stylised as "TorToiSe") is pretty amazing: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by forgingahead · 2022-06-20 · in Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languages with 173 voices
  33. Nice work! Has anybody compared this to TorToiSe [1] ? [1] https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by klankbrouwerij · 2022-06-13 · in 15.ai
  34. …from the examples you fed it... tbh it's not much better than doing it yourself with something like https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by throw457 · 2022-06-07 · in Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API
  35. This blog is by the author of Tortoise-TTS (stylised as TorToiSe): https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts Very cool work being done in ML these days, both inside large corps, and also by independent researchers/"hobbyists" (quotation…
    comment by forgingahead · 2022-05-27 · in Friends don’t let friends train small diffusion models
  36. Text generated by GPT-3 and voices are rendered with https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by erikstarck · 2022-05-24 · in Lexman Artificial Podcast – Elon Musk Part 2
  37. Thanks! It's TorToiSe: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by almostdigital · 2022-05-24 · in I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it
  38. Some cutting-edge stuff is still being made by talented hackers using nothing but a rig of 8x 3090s: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts Other funding models are possible as well, in the grand scheme of things the price for these…
    comment by sinenomine · 2022-05-24 · in Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
  39. …Here's a related issue on a Open Source text to speech project which I only learned of today: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts/issues/34#issue-1229... > I tend to view most of these things through the perspective of what would help…
    comment by follower · 2022-05-18 · in NaturalSpeech: End-to-end text to speech synthesis with human-level quality
  40. See also the recently published Tortoise TTS, which IMO sounds even better: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
    comment by thorum · 2022-05-18 · in NaturalSpeech: End-to-end text to speech synthesis with human-level quality
  41. TortoiseTTS might be the closest https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts It's a few shot multi speaker model so you need just 3-4 little clips to train new voices.
    comment by VGltZUNvbnN1 · 2022-05-18 · in NaturalSpeech: End-to-end text to speech synthesis with human-level quality