I've tried it on my laptop and it is about as slow/fast as xtts. But as far as I can there's no way of keeping a consistent voice from generation to generation. If so, I don't really get the appeal. If there was a way to get consistent, then that's great for NPCs.
If we're talking about https://huggingface.co/coqui/XTTS-v2 , that appears to be explicitly licensed only for non-commercial use, while this appears to be pure Apache 2.0; that's a good enough reason to prefer this for some people.
Does anyone know of a good text normalization (?) library that converts symbols and initialisms into plain English before feeding them into a TTS model? All the models that I've used so far do a horrible job at synthesizing speech for them and I'm wondering whether this is the missing piece in the pipeline.
There are two hard problems in computer science; naming things.
Unfortunate that this shares a name with a much-maligned microblogging site. Probably it's not a good idea to take unmodified everyday words[0] from a widely spoken language as your product name, see also e.g. "Triton".
[0] In this case "parler" is French for "to speak"
