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Offline TTS in 2026? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by KarlLimbo@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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so i yes, espeak exists and still sounds terrible even worse than picoTTS (last update 4 yrs ago?). so what else is there? i look at mimic3 and it says they are dead and one should go for piper here: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3 the link to piper followed I get: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper "This repository was archived by the owner on Oct 6, 2025. It is now read-only. "

ok, so coqui? https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS no update in over 12 months..how bad can it be? https://coqui.ai/ ...great it is a page for gambling now.

so, what are you using? gTTS is not offline.

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

https://github.com/marytts/marytts

I've used MaryTTS semi-recently. It's older but works well enough for my cases. I have it running on a server (locally) and my endpoints make a call to it and playback the returned audio file.

On Android, I use SherpaTTS which has good voices, but I'm not aware of a desktop/Linux option. It mentions using voices from Coqui which you linked, so I would guess that would be the way to go for desktop.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

SherpaTTS is great on GrapheneOS with OSM for navigation.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I'm using it with CoMaps, freaking great.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 1 points 7 months ago

+1 for this.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sherpa links to this page, if anyone wants to preview what the voices sound like

https://huggingface.co/spaces/k2-fsa/text-to-speech

From the ones I've tried so far, csukuangfj/vits-piper-en_US-amy-medium|1 speaker sounded the most clear and natural for GPS / driving directions. If someone finds other good ones, I'd appreciate it :)