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Better TTS on Linux (shkspr.mobi)
submitted 1 week ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev
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The venerable eSpeak is a mainstay of Linux distributions. It is a clever Text-To-Speech (TTS) program which will read aloud the written word using a phenomenally wide variety of languages and accents. The only problem is that it sounds robotic. It has the same vocal fidelity as a 1980s Speak 'n' Spell toy. Monotonous, clipped, and painful to listen to. For some people, this is a feature, not a…

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[–] who@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Seems broken for me, and the author is ignoring awesome PRs.

onnxruntime.capi.onnxruntime_pybind11_state.Fail: [ONNXRuntimeError] : 1 : FAIL : Load model from /home/user/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--KittenML--kitten-tts-mini-0.8/snapshots/c02725660cea441db4c383af69f1f26f5cd00947/kitten_tts_mini_v0_8.onnx failed:/onnxruntime_src/onnxruntime/core/graph/model_load_utils.h:46 void onnxruntime::model_load_utils::ValidateOpsetForDomain(const std::unordered_map<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char>, int>&, const onnxruntime::logging::Logger&, bool, const std::string&, int) ONNX Runtime only *guarantees* support for models stamped with official released onnx opset versions. Opset 5 is under development and support for this is limited. The operator schemas and or other functionality may change before next ONNX release and in this case ONNX Runtime will not guarantee backward compatibility. Current official support for domain ai.onnx.ml is till opset 4.