As a screen reader user, I welcome new open source text to speech models.
A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
whaleross@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some preemptive advice if you’re in the market of implementing TTS for some customer or service:
Do not ever use any “humanisation” tweaks. Having a computer voice stumble on a word or fucking cough is uncanny valley and how to make people feel manipulated in one simple trick.
Just don’t. Everybody hates it.