Title question mostly. I’ve played with XTTS-v2 and it worked pretty well, but I’m wondering if folks are using anything else special. I’d like to train my own voice finetune which is what I did with XTTS-v2, and then use it with home assistant’s voice feature. Welcome all opinions on it!

  • @just_another_personEnglish
    2•1 month ago

    Pretty much just personal preference at this point. XTTS is certainly not the most efficient though.

      • @just_another_personEnglish
        3•1 month ago

        Pico, Piper, Mary, and Google all run locally and off of CPU only.

        I think all the rest require cloud accounts or acceleration hardware to work quickly.

        I’m personally fine with Mary or Piper, but I know some people like the fancier ones.

            • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍English
              1•1 month ago

              The docs don’t say it’s completely offline. Can you turn off your LAN connection and it still works? Have you tried this? Or just firewall off out bound access to Google services?

              This comment:

              Contrary to what the name suggests, the integration only does text-to-speech and does not translate messages sent to it.

              doesn’t say it doesn’t call out to Google services; it says only that it doesn’t use translation services. I didn’t see anything else that implies it doesn’t send data to Google.

              • @just_another_personEnglish
                1•30 days ago

                If it doesn’t require an API key in the config, it’s offline. My HA works totally offline unless I need to do updates, and it’s always worked for me.

                You can also view the code, cuz open source.

                • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍English
                  1•29 days ago

                  Yeah, so I dug into it, and it’s definitely not offline. It uses gtts, which ultimately makes calls to google.com for the tts. You can track it down yourself, but you’ll eventually end up here, which talks about how to change the google host name in case it’s blocked.

                  I’m not sure why you believe not needing an API key means it isn’t calling a Google API, especially in this case where it clearly states it’s using an unofficial channel - which is the same trick third party YouTube clients use to access YouTube videos without using API keys.