I just found this. This is huge! As a german, I use thorsten medium
[https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/sherpa-onnx-apk/resolve/main/tts-engine-new/1.10.26/sherpa-onnx-1.10.26-arm64-v8a-de-tts-engine-vits-piper-de_DE-thorsten-medium.apk]
as he simply made the best dataset. Mixing english with german, speaking
numbers, single letters, pausing without a “.” but just a linebreak, all those
can be essential. And… it is nearly perfect! And all local! This is crazy!
eSpeak can finally go to rest!
For anyone that is dyslexic and privacy conscious it’s a pretty big deal.
Its also nice for anyone that is only privacy conscious.