@fishertimj wrote:
This is my first post about Rhasspy, having just jumped down the offline voice assistant rabbit hole. I’m only an hour or two in (installed Rhasspy on my NUC via Docker, reading a lot, buying a mic+pi setup, etc.) and color me VERY impressed! @synesthesiam, you have done something really amazing here and I can’t wait to see it continue to develop!
My first of many questions/comments are around the TTS options. The range of choices are much appreciated but none of the fully offline options “wow” me (i.e. are as good or better than Google’s - yes, for obvious reasons) but I do think some of the MaryTTS voices are pretty damn good.
When I was digging around for additional engines to suggest that you add, I came across this open source implementation of WaveNet: https://r9y9.github.io/wavenet_vocoder/. It’s a little over my head, certainly after just 5 minutes of reading, but I’m wondering if there’s an opportunity to use this in some capacity? I’m not sure if it’s a true TTS itself or another layer of processing on top of an existing TTS engine but I’d love any thoughts on it.
Thanks!
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