r/TextToSpeech

Hardware:

• CPU:7500f
• RAM:32GB
• GPU: AMD RX9060xt 16gb

1. Generating speech with the default voice works reasonably well.
2. However, when I create a custom voice from an audio sample longer than 30 seconds and start speech generation, my entire computer starts freezing. It gets progressively slower until even the mouse cursor becomes unresponsive.

Is there any way to reserve enough system resources for the OS to remain responsive while generating speech? I'd like to prevent the entire computer from freezing during generation.

Hi, I just want to ask if anyone else take advantage of Assistive Reader or ebook apps with TTS options so you can multitask while 'reading' ? Obviously it will not surpass actual voice actors doing Audiobooks but for books that are not popular that you still want to 'listen' to, Assistive Reader and ebook apps with free TTS is very helpful. My only problem is finding a good enough Text to Speech voice online.

I use Google's native TTS app for a decade now, but unfortunately nothing has changed for their voice, nor have any improvements been done, in my opinion. Do you have other TTS app you can recommend I get or buy one time? (Subscriptions are too expensive!) Thank you.