An exapp that converts text to speech using Kokoro. This is a very lightweight model that supports languages such as English, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Kokoro Text2Speech is a Nextcloud app that provides an AI capable of converting text to speech using various voices and languages.
This app is built on top of the Kokoro AI model.
Positive:
- The software for training and inferencing of this model is open source
- The trained model is freely available, and thus can be ran on-premises
Negative:
- The training data isn't freely available, making it not possible to check or correct for bias or optimise the performance and CO2 usage.
Make sure to use python 3.12.