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A fast, local neural text to speech system

45 mentions on Hacker News by 29 people: 5 stories, 40 comments · first 2023-04-25 · latest 2025-06-25

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  1. …You can tell it's TTS, but it's good enough that you can become accustomed to it fairly easily. https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by lupusreal · 2025-06-25 · in DeepSpeech Is Discontinued (2020)
  2. Could you ask them to look at my open PR then? The macOS build has been broken for well over a year: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/pull/678
    comment by dharmab · 2025-04-05 · in Coqui TTS: Free Text-to-Speech
  3. …Hope you guys like it. I'm hoping to get to making some nicer documentation soon. Piper TTS engine: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper Piper TTS voices: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
    comment by beneadie97 · 2025-02-22 · in Open-source CPU self-hosted Piper TTS API with file management for S3
  4. …way if others are also interested in this [0] https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook/ [1] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/issues/352
    comment by C-Loftus · 2025-02-08 · in Kokoro WebGPU: Real-time text-to-speech 100% locally in the browser
  5. …https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/piper.html and to the Rhasspy team for their training guide: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/blob/master/TRAINING.md . I also found DEMUCS + Whisper + pydub to be a super helpful combo for creating…
    comment by hm64 · 2025-01-15 · in Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
  6. There is also this TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper that is pretty good (depending on the language) and extremely fast, would be cool to change the script to user Piper instead of Kokoro in case you want to use a language that is not…
    comment by GaggiX · 2025-01-15 · in Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
  7. Piper! https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by xerocole · 2024-11-01 · in Ask HN: What's the best on-device TTS engine with natural voice
  8. …with these (open source, on-device) : https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper (speech-to-text) https://github.com/rhasspy/piper (text-to-speech)
    comment by jankovicsandras · 2024-10-15 · in Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingual TTS model
  9. …[1] https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ [2] https://huggingface.co/spaces/coqui/xtts [3] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper [4] https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
    comment by TiredGuy · 2024-10-11 · in Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command
  10. …model directory and specify it via the cli args. [0] https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ [1] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/issues/51 [2] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/blob/master/TRAINING.md [3]…
    comment by C-Loftus · 2024-10-07 · in Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command
  11. Check out Piper TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper Note: I tried to run it on MacOS and had an issue with Python compatibility - ended up running it in a Docker container, got it working fine. If you experience the same issue, let me…
    comment by dv35z · 2024-08-30 · in Free Local Text to Speech?
  12. …https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ (or make your own). Happy to help you set it up locally... https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by dv35z · 2024-07-14 · in Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech
  13. …quality is great, it's extremely lightweight, and it's fast enough to generate TTS in realtime https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by phyce · 2024-06-11 · in Coqui.ai TTS: A Deep Learning Toolkit for Text-to-Speech
  14. …output can be heard in the second example here: https://rancidbacon.gitlab.io/piper-tts-demos/ [2b] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper [2c] https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/blob/main/en/en_... [2d] Text generation script:…
    comment by follower · 2024-05-30 · in Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences
  15. …on that page is based on Larynx TTS which has continued development more recently as Piper TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper I'm yet to publish my port which uses Piper TTS though: https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/larynx-dialogue/-/tree/f…
    comment by follower · 2024-05-29 · in ChatTTS-Best open source TTS Model
  16. …(with a range of voice[2] model licenses[3]--including Public Domain & CC-BY[4]) is Piper TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper ---- footnotes ---- [-1] https://huggingface.co/2Noise/ChatTTS [0] https://github.com/2noise/ChatTTS/blob/f4c832…
    comment by follower · 2024-05-29 · in ChatTTS-Best open source TTS Model
  17. Would you settle for as "horrible" as new open source TTS systems? :D My current go to is Piper TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper It's MIT-licensed, supports ~30 languages and multiple voices[0]/quality/licenses. Voice output samples:…
    comment by follower · 2024-05-29 · in ChatTTS-Best open source TTS Model
  18. …English at least I've found Piper's quality & range of voices of use[3]. ---- footnotes ---- [0] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL19C7uchWZeojjI5FUk3q... [2] In addition to other German voices…
    comment by follower · 2024-05-29 · in ChatTTS-Best open source TTS Model
  19. …else (e.g. Piper). https://github.com/tincans-ai/gazelle?tab=readme-ov-file https://tincans.ai/slm https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by BrutalCoding · 2024-05-13 · in GPT-4o
  20. …piper, which has a lot of voices and accents, though it's tricky to buffer and sync long texts. https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by illuminant · 2024-05-07 · in Ask HN: Open-source, local Text-to-Speech (TTS) generators
  21. …* "When espeak-ng translates Chinese (cmn), IPA tone symbols are not output correctly #305": https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/issues/305 * "Please default ESpeak NG's voice role to 'Chinese (Mandarin, latin as Pinyin)' for Chinese to fix…
    comment by follower · 2024-05-02 · in ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
  22. Depending on your definition of "huge", you might find Piper TTS fits your requirements: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper The size of the associated voice files varies but there are options that are under 100MB:…
    comment by follower · 2024-05-02 · in ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
  23. …Text To Speech, I've found Piper TTS useful (for situations where "quality"=="realistic"/"natual"): https://github.com/rhasspy/piper For Speech to Text (which AIUI DeepSpeech provided), I've had some success with Vosk:…
    comment by follower · 2024-05-02 · in ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
  24. Based on your description of your requirements Piper TTS might be of interest to you: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by follower · 2024-05-02 · in ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
  25. …Hansen (a.k.a synesthesiam) (who also previously developed Larynx TTS) now develops Piper TTS ( https://github.com/rhasspy/piper ) which is essentially a "successor" to the earlier projects. IIUC ongoing development of Piper TTS is now…
    comment by follower · 2024-05-02 · in ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
  26. …& https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/larynx-dialogue/-/tree/featur... [2] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper [3] Very much no shade toward the project intended.
    comment by follower · 2024-05-02 · in ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
  27. …"topic" it would pronounce it as "topich, which was fun while browsing forums or such. [0] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by readmemyrights · 2024-05-02 · in ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
  28. …predecessor Larynx) continued TTS-related development with Larynx and the renamed project Piper: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper Last year Piper development was supported by Nabu Casa for their "Year of Voice" project for Home Assistant…
    comment by follower · 2024-01-18 · in WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
  29. …down. An equivalent project that's still in active development and doing really well is Piper TTS ( https://github.com/rhasspy/piper ).
    comment by lucius_verus · 2024-01-11 · in Coqui.ai Is Shutting Down
  30. …prior art for me, in the form of a Raspberry Pi-based ONNX inference library called [Piper]( https://github.com/rhasspy/piper ). I should just be able to copy that, about an afternoon of work! :P Except...when these models are trained,…
    comment by refulgentis · 2024-01-02 · in OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning
  31. This is a reasonably good open source local TTS that's fast enough to use in home automation: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by malermeister · 2023-12-06 · in Common Voice
  32. piper-whistle is a tool to manage voices used with the piper ( https://github.com/rhasspy/piper ) speech synthesizer. Main motivation was to download and reference models in a structured way. You may browse the docs online at…
    comment by blurryroots · 2023-12-05 · in Piper-whistle – Tool for piper TTS voice model management
  33. You may want to try Piper for this case (RPi 4): https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by synesthesiam · 2023-11-21 · in StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech
  34. …my own experience earlier in the year I've been pleased with the results I've gotten from Piper: * https://github.com/rhasspy/piper I've primarily used it with the LibriTTS-based voices due to their license but if it's for personal local…
    comment by follower · 2023-10-02 · in Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
  35. I think this is the link. Not 100% sure though, is this correct? https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by candiodari · 2023-06-24 · in Meta says its new speech-generating AI tool is too dangerous to release
  36. Thanks for sharing! This is something I'm interested in as well. There's also Piper TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper Quality seems fairly similar to Coqui-TTS, though maybe the intonation is a bit off. I've generated a bunch of…
    comment by rentnorove · 2023-05-20 · in The Work of the Audiobook
  37. …[0,1]. The Piper page includes training instructions. [0] https://github.com/rhasspy [1] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by desro · 2023-05-16 · in Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features
  38. …about Piper[2], which is a C++/py alternative to Mimic3. [1] https://github.com/synesthesiam [2] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    comment by jzebedee · 2023-05-15 · in Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware
  39. > 900+ voices Where can I find all these voices? https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/releases/tag/v0.0.2 lists "only" ~50 files.
    comment by xept · 2023-04-28 · in Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk
  40. https://github.com/rhasspy/piper I was confused as well
    comment by mxmlnkn · 2023-04-25 · in Piper: A proposal for a graphy pipe-based build system