[siwakotisaurav]

Have you tried tortoisetts? I believe eleven labs basically forked that and made improvements on voice quality and speed there

[nannal]

tortoisetts is good to takes a long time to render audio even on it's fastest setting with the fast fork.

Although it wasn't clear to me how voicebox compares.

[theLiminator]

How does it compare to Voicebox in quality?

[pksebben]

I would say that properly configured Tortoise is better, but that comes with the massive caveat that Tortoise:

1 - Is a real pain to get 'working right' - it's not even remotely batteries included

and, more importantly:

2 - Is incredibly slow. I've been turning Heart Of Darkness into an audiobook as a unit test and it takes ~30m per paragraph, on average. Add to that the occasional hiccup where a block gets transcribed badly (Tortoise occasionally 'drops out' of it's selected voice) and Tortoise only really works if you have a ton of compute and you still don't mind waiting forever.

[siwakotisaurav]

FYI there’s also this fork for faster inference: https://github.com/152334H/tortoise-tts-fast