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I'm looking to locally generate voiceovers from text and also try to generate audiobooks. Does anyone have experience with sherpa-onnx? There also appear to be two separate frontends for Kokoro specifically dedicated for audiobook creation, but they appear to both be abandoned. Or am I barking up the completely wrong tree?
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I once got kobold.CPP working with their collection of TTS model+ wav tokenizer system. Here's the wiki page on it.

It may not be as natural as a commercial voice model but may be enough to wet your appetite in the event that other solutions feel overwhelmingly complicated