[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