Was somewhat annoying to get everything to work as the documentation is a bit spotty, but after ~20 minutes it's all working well for me on WSL Ubuntu 22.04. Sound quality is very good, much better than other open source TTS projects I've seen. It's also SUPER fast (at least using a 4090 GPU).
Not sure it's quite up to Eleven Labs quality. But to me, what makes Eleven so cool is that they have a large library of high quality voices that are easy to choose from. I don't yet see any way with this library to get a different voice from the default female voice.
Also, the real special sauce for Eleven is the near instant voice cloning with just a single 5 minute sample, which works shockingly (even spookily) well. Can't wait to have that all available in a fully open source project! The services that provide this as an API are just too expensive for many use cases. Even the OpenAI one which is on the cheaper side costs ~10 cents for a couple thousand word generation.
Not sure it's quite up to Eleven Labs quality. But to me, what makes Eleven so cool is that they have a large library of high quality voices that are easy to choose from. I don't yet see any way with this library to get a different voice from the default female voice.
Also, the real special sauce for Eleven is the near instant voice cloning with just a single 5 minute sample, which works shockingly (even spookily) well. Can't wait to have that all available in a fully open source project! The services that provide this as an API are just too expensive for many use cases. Even the OpenAI one which is on the cheaper side costs ~10 cents for a couple thousand word generation.