Free Amazing Voices with Piper TTS: Easy Install + Hugging Face!

Hey everyone! 👋 Welcome to another video by MangoLLM. Today, we're diving into the world of text-to-speech with the Piper TTS engine - a fantastic open-source tool that's all about delivering high-quality voice synthesis. 🎤✨ In this video, we'll guide you step-by-step on how to install Piper TTS and add some seriously amazing voices available from huggingface.co. Whether you're looking to bring your projects to life or just curious about TTS technology, this one's for you! Here's what we'll cover: Easy installation of Piper TTS. How to find and install those super realistic voices. A quick demo at the end to show you what these voices can do. Oh, and don't worry – we'll share the commands used throughout the video, so you can follow along without any hassle. REFERENCE COMMANDS & URLS: apt install python3-gi apt install gir1.2-gtk-3.0 apt install libgtk-3-dev wget https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/releases/... gunzip *.gz cd /usr/local/share tar xvf ~/tts/piper_binary/piper_linux_x86_64.tar ln -s /usr/local/share/piper/piper /usr/bin/piper https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voice... echo "Hello this is a test of piper which hopefully does not sound too bad." | piper --model /usr/share/piper/voices/en_US-ryan-high.onnx --config /usr/share/piper/voices/en_US-ryan-high.onnx.json --output_file ryan.wav Stay tuned to the end for some samples of these incredible voices and see how easy it is to get started! Hit that like button if you find this helpful, and don't forget to subscribe to MangoLLM for more tech goodness. Let's get started! 🍋🚀 #PiperTTS #HuggingFace #TextToSpeech #OpenSource #MangoLLM