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Models not using espeak

Open amakropoulos opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Hi, thank you for this awesome library 💥!

I'd like to use it in the Unity engine but I'm concerned about the license issue (#93). Are there any good quality models not using the espeak library?

amakropoulos avatar Apr 02 '24 06:04 amakropoulos

Not yet, unfortunately. Replacing eSpeak is a significant undertaking, especially across so many languages.

I assume you're using Piper in Unity with English? Do you have some examples of the sorts of numbers you deal with, such as dates, times, currency, etc.? I'm trying to prioritize.

synesthesiam avatar Apr 02 '24 15:04 synesthesiam

Thank you for the quick reply!

I have developed LLM for Unity that integrates LLMs into Unity. I'm looking into how to add TTS functionality and Piper is the only open-source option in the C world (plus it's great 🙂!).

English would be sufficient for now, but I think developers would need all the different numbers.

amakropoulos avatar Apr 02 '24 15:04 amakropoulos