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📣 jamil7

On-Device Text to Speech


Hey HN, has anyone found a viable solution for doing this locally and offline on iOS? I'd like to offer a privacy-friendly text to speech feature to my App, and Apple's speech synthesis sounds awful compared to some newer models and TTS engines. The only thing I've found is an older TensorFlowTTS example here: https://github.com/TensorSpeech/TensorFlowTTS/tree/master/examples/ios

Any pointers or tips appreciated.

  👤 layer8 Accepted Answer ✓
Did you take a look at the iOS 17 beta? With the new Personal Voice feature, I would expect an improvement in speech synthesis. Furthermore, users will maybe expect to be able to use their personal voices with your app.