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Can piper_TTS be more expressive?

Open PhilipAmadasun opened this issue 11 months ago • 3 comments

Are there ways to make piper_TTS more expressive? Like keywords you can add to text to make 11labs TTs more expressive, something like that? For instance if I wanted the TTS to emphasis a certain word in a sentence or something, is that possible?

PhilipAmadasun avatar Jan 15 '25 03:01 PhilipAmadasun

Somehow, although it's very technical to, ya know, get into, unless your dataset supports it. I don't know, just myself speculating.

luiscarlos2000 avatar Jan 15 '25 03:01 luiscarlos2000

@luiscarlos2000 I'm using one of the pretrained english models.

PhilipAmadasun avatar Jan 15 '25 03:01 PhilipAmadasun

Yes, I would love to have this feature too. Often LLMs output asterisks around words to emphasize, and I guess that would be nice to support. But I guess there is something with training here so each voice would likely have to be retrained with this feature?

64jcl avatar Apr 29 '25 17:04 64jcl