The Text-to-Speech (TTS) landscape is transforming rapidly. Have you explored the latest advancements?

I recently came across Kokoro, a compact yet powerful TTS model (only 82M parameters!), and I'm impressed. Its audio quality is exceptional, rivalling much larger models. Beyond quality, Kokoro is fast enough for real-time applications and can …

While text-to-image and text-to-text take most of the Generative AI headlines, the field of text-to-speech (TTS) continues to make steady progress. Recently, I explored the capabilities of Tortoise-TTS, an open-source framework for building high-fidelity TTS systems.

I've captured my research and experimentation in a Jupyter notebook. You can find it …