Feature Idea: Simple TTS Tab

[Derjyn]

The current UI misses an easy win: a tab with a basic "text to speech" functionality. This would use either designed/saved voices or the preset ones. Right now it feels a bit clumsy using one of the other tabs that serve other focused purposes, and it is a bit confusing on the user-experience front if someone is thinking "Okay, I designed a voice, and I will want to use that voice to generate speech audio several times in the future."

In the current presentation, we have to use the "Voice Clone" tab to select a voice we designed, and then generate speech - however, there are several other elements on this tab that confuse the goal, if intent is just to select a designed voice and generate speech. So a tab with just the dropdown of designed voices, a text input box for text we want spoken, and the lovely generate button. This leaves room for future iteration if possible, for tweakables like pitch/tone/rate or whatever other variables may surface in the future.

[NeoKazuya]

Agreed. The Voice Clone tab, while technically able to stand on its own, now seems redundant. It lets you save a voice from a single reference audio, but the Create Voice tab already does that and supports up to 5 references for better quality. So the voice-saving part of Voice Clone is just a less capable duplicate right now.

I think the fix is to restructure:
Create Voice -> rename to Voice Clone (that's where the actual cloning happens, and it's the more capable version)
Voice Clone -> refocus as TTS or Generate (just voice selection + text input + generate, no cloning)

This should clean up the redundancy and improve the UX. I also plan to fully implement emotion control once the larger 25Hz model lands, so a dedicated TTS tab would be the right place for those controls like you mentioned.

That said, there's probably more to consider here, and not having an option to immediately clone a voice on the first tab might be confusing for new users. I'll sleep on it first.