If your a bit technical Chatterbox or F5-TTS are pretty good models you can run in docker containers locally that support voice cloning, just provide a 5 second sample More on reddit.com

I just spent the last 15 minutes making various cartoon characters curse words and other crude phrases, I'm not sure the world needed this power lmao More on reddit.com

Edit: JfC. There are so many models! https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/arena You want to hang out in r/AIVoiceMemes Coqui is fast but the voices are bad. Tortoise is slow and unreliable but the voices are often great. StyleTTS2 is meant to be great and fast, but I could never figure out how to run it. The key difference between Style and Coqui is that, I believe (things change), that you can train StyleTTS2. RVC does voice to voice, if you're struggling to get the ***precise*** pacing then you should speak into a mic and voice clone it with RVC. You will want to seek podcasts and audiobooks on YouTube to download for audio sources. You will want to use UVR5 to separate vocals from instrumentals if that becomes a thing. You will eventually want to try lip syncing video, for that you will use EasyWav2Lip or possibly Face Fusion. If you're having difficulty with install, there are Pinokio installs of a lot of TTS that can be easier to use, but are more limited. Check out Jarod's Journey for all of the advice, especially about Tortoise: https://www.youtube.com/@Jarods_Journey Check out P3tro for the only good installation tutorial about RVC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ12-Vm2ryc&t=58s&ab_channel=p3tro Edit: Jarod made a gui for StyleTTS2. Also, try alltalk? Edit: u/a_beautifil_rhind styletts has a better model called vokan. https://huggingface.co/ShoukanLabs/Vokan/tree/main/Model There's also fish-audio now in addition to xtts. Also voicecraft. Edit: u/tavirabon Coqui (XTTS) can be finetuned https://github.com/daswer123/xtts-finetune-webui Also https://github.com/RVC-Boss/GPT-SoVITS which is a step up from other zero-shot TTS and most few-shot TTS (>1 minute of clear natural speech) finetuning Edit: u/battlerepulsiveO You can use the huggingface model of XTTS V2 because there are people who have finetuned XTTS V2 before. It's really simple to train with different methods like one that has automated for you where you just drop in the audio files. Or you can personally create a dataset and a csv file with the name of the audio file and the transcription, and all the wav files should be stored inside a wav folder. It all depends on the notebook you're using. Edit: u/dumpimel have you tried alltalk? it's based on coqui https://github.com/erew123/alltalk_tts you drop a 20s .wav in the "voices" folder and it's pretty decent at reproducing the voice they also say you can finetune it further More on reddit.com

With AI developments rapidly following each other up, I was wondering if there is an affordable software which allows converting text to speech with real-life quality. More on reddit.com