Show HN: Tortoise TTS as an at-cost open-source pay-per-second API https://ift.tt/mSW8yux

Show HN: Tortoise TTS as an at-cost open-source pay-per-second API Tortoise TTS is the best TTS available today. We built an open-source, at cost, pay per second API for it. The quality of intonation it generates is unparalleled, and we hope our at-cost API will make it easier for people to build on top! This allows folks to run via a single API call - it costs $0.03/query. The WAV file is downloadable, we apply no restrictions. We're open-sourcing all our work — we made Tortoise run 30% faster, and have more improvements coming. If you're keen to contribute we can help with ideas, pointers, compute and data; just DM us. Our fork with the improvements can be found at https://ift.tt/9S8Gqyt . The deployment code can be found at https://ift.tt/rMYnyiT . There are already great alternatives for using : i) @mdnest_r's awesome Huggingface Spaces, ii) original Google Colab, iii) host it yourself. Our work should accelerate those who need an API, don't want to spend time/$ hosting and need a scalable infra backing them. We're especially excited about combining text-to-speech with content generated from LLMs, and about how it fits into video creation tools. Tortoise in its current form is also inaccessible to non-technical users, which is why we are also providing a simple UI on top (also "at-cost"): https://tts.themetavoice.xyz To use, generate an API key on https://tts.themetavoice.xyz and call via POST request. Or use the web UI. Or run your own deployment. https://twitter.com/vatsal_aggarwal/status/1612536547248836608 January 9, 2023 at 09:05PM