Out Loud - Free , offline text-to-speech AI (out-loud.io)

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Out Loud is a free, open-source AI text-to-speech app that runs 100% offline. Nothing you read or type ever leaves your device — no cloud, no accounts, no tracking. Get 50+ natural voices across 8 languages (English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, and more) on macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a Chrome extension that reads any webpage, PDF, or email aloud with one click.

MIT licensed and free forever — audit it, fork it, improve it. A genuine alternative to subscription TTS services, with no fees, ever.

Download v2.0.0: https://www.out-loud.io/#download Star on GitHub: https://github.com/light-cloud-com/out-loud

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[-] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I don't do much TTS but is this better than the non-AI equivalent?

Maybe my ears are bad because I've listen to too much human made loud music, but it sounds more artificial than the default say command on OSX.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

those samples sounded better than these ones from 2023 to me, but can we even know that apple is or isn't using AI for new versions of say?

https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/2w/gw/r3/4n/

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's quite a quality difference between the different voices.

For example in the English (UK) ones, there's 8 of them, which vary between "pretty good" and "robotic".

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