I can't find any that actually work, they all either say I need more credits, a subscription, or it just breaks. I need one that's free and at least a 2000 character limit
I dont care about emotion and stuff, but I would like a human sounding voice. I like how kokoro sounds but I had trouble getting docker to work. My PC is on kubuntu.
Ideally I would like to be able to select the text and click "read aloud," but im fine with copying and pasting it too.
Been building voice stuff for a while and this keeps annoying me, the LLM writes "your EMI of ₹4,500 is due on 05/09" and the TTS reads it like it's having a stroke. Dates become "oh five slash oh nine", currency gets butchered, "2-3 days" turns into "two minus three days".
Ended up training a small model that sits between the LLM and the TTS and rewrites just those parts into speakable words "four thousand five hundred rupees due on the fifth of September" while leaving every other byte untouched. It also handles Hindi-English code-mixing, which was the boss level.
Put a free playground up if anyone wants to break it: normnom.com there's a "tn off" toggle so you can compare what your TTS actually receives with and without it.
Genuinely curious what edge cases people can find that it fails on.