Tag: tts

A community member facing cancer treatment that may result in losing their ability to speak asks for help synthesizing their voice using local models. The community responded with recommendations for voice synthesis tools, particularly highlighting Qwen TTS models as small (0.9B parameters) and effective for personal voice cloning.

Developer building voice agents reports that TTS latency is significantly worse than advertised (~1-1.2s end-to-end) and most providers are prohibitively expensive. The discussion surfaces practical challenges in building conversational agents at production quality and cost.