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by lucius_verus
896 days ago
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Coqui-ai was a commercial continuation of Mozilla TTS and STT (https://github.com/mozilla/TTS). At the time (2018-ish), it was really impressive for on-device voice synthesis (with a quality approaching the Google and Azure cloud-based voice synthesis options) and open source, so a lot of people in the FOSS community were hoping it could be used for a privacy-respecting home assistant, Linux speech synthesis that doesn't suck, etc. After Mozilla abandoned the project, Coqui continued development and had some really impressive one-shot voice cloning, but pivoted to marketing speech synthesis for game developers. They were probably having trouble monetizing it, and it doesn't surprise me that they shut down. An equivalent project that's still in active development and doing really well is Piper TTS (https://github.com/rhasspy/piper). |
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