I really enjoy pasting articles into ChatGPT and having its voice model read them out to me. It sounds way better than other TTS systems I’ve tried, but it’s cumbersome.<p>Are there any interesting products in this space?
Have you checked your operating system? On macOS, in Chrome and Safari, you can select any text on a page and just go to Speech -> Start speaking and it'll read it using the built-in TTS from your OS.<p>You might want to change the default voice (under macOS Settings -> Accessibility -> Spoken Content) to "Siri - Voice 4", which will sound much better than the default Samantha.<p>If you click on "Manage voices", you can also download other voices.<p>--------<p>If you want better voices, you can use the OpenAI voices via desktop apps like <a href="https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/voices" rel="nofollow">https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/voices</a> or Chrome extensions like <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/readme-text-to-speech-tts/npdkkcjlmhcnnaoobfdjndibfkkhhdfn" rel="nofollow">https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/readme-text-to-spee...</a>
I use the Read Aloud Firefox extension to read newspaper articles and the wandering inn stories. Works well for me. In the configuration there are free and premium voices. I enable Google Translate voice and increase the speed a bit.<p>Main repo (website there too, or search on Firefox extensions): <a href="https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud">https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud</a>
I'm using Microsoft azure TTS, which you can use their API within the free quota, and this is a Python program I wrote to generate speech and srt subtitle files from text utilizing their API. Feel free to refer to it. <a href="https://github.com/hoothin/AIApplications">https://github.com/hoothin/AIApplications</a>
I'm pretty sure you could go with Coqui TTS. Here is a good tutorial on how to use Voice Cloning with XTTS:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJB17HW4M9o" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJB17HW4M9o</a>