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Which selfhosted TTS provider should I use with home assistant? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 15 hours ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Title question mostly. I've played with XTTS-v2 and it worked pretty well, but I'm wondering if folks are using anything else special. I'd like to train my own voice finetune which is what I did with XTTS-v2, and then use it with home assistant's voice feature. Welcome all opinions on it!

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[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

if you need English - right now it's kokoro-fastapi https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI set this container up and use it as an openai TTS endpoint using this hacs integration https://github.com/sfortis/openai_tts

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 3 hours ago

Very nice! I'll check this out!

[–] johntash@eviltoast.org 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Piper works pretty well. I'm only using it because it was easier to find a custom glados voice.

Kokoro has good default voices. I also started trying out Speaches recently. It provides an open ai api wrapper around several options

[–] VocalCritic@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Any tips on getting speaches to work with Home assistant? Got speaches working but haven't gone the next step yet.

[–] Vector@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Don’t know much about the training side of things, but I have Piper set up with home assistant using the Wyoming protocol and it just goes. Some of the out-of-the-box voices are pretty decent too.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty much just personal preference at this point. XTTS is certainly not the most efficient though.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

any personal preferences you recommend?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Pico, Piper, Mary, and Google all run locally and off of CPU only.

I think all the rest require cloud accounts or acceleration hardware to work quickly.

I'm personally fine with Mary or Piper, but I know some people like the fancier ones.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Google? Have you verified that?