EmotiVoice

Interested to see how it performs for Mandarin Chinese speech synthesis, especially with prosody and emotion. The highest quality open source model I've seen so far is EmotiVoice[0], which I've made a CLI wrapper around to generate audio for flashcards.[1] For EmotiVoice, you can apparently also clone your own voice with a GPU, but I have not tested this.[2] [0] https://github.com/netease-youdao/EmotiVoice [1] https://github.com/siraben/emotivoice-cli [2] https://github.com/netease-youdao/EmotiVoice/wiki/Voice-Clon...

Interesting. I'll have to check to be sure, but I think maybe something is happening automagically if you have reasonably up to date nvidia drivers on the host OS, because I was able to run the EmotiVoice TTS docker (which requires nvidia gpu) from WSL2. https://github.com/netease-youdao/EmotiVoice

The first one I plan to try is https://github.com/netease-youdao/EmotiVoice I don't have the expertise to judge the quality of Mandarin pronunciation myself, being a beginner. But it sounds OK in English and it's made by native Mandarin speakers in China so I expect that it sounds better in Mandarin than English.