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Any good linux voice changer? (lemmy.pe1uca.dev)
submitted 3 months ago by pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm using https://github.com/rhasspy/piper mostly to create some audiobooks and read some posts/news, but the voices available are not always comfortable to listen to.

Do you guys have any recommendation for a voice changer to process these audio files?
Preferably it'll have a CLI so I can include it in my pipeline to process RSS feeds, but I don't mind having to work through an UI.
Bonus points if it can process the audio streams.

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago

That's called text to speech, not a voice changer. A voice changer is the thing in the Darth Vader halloween masks.

There's been discussion on TTS programs here recently: https://lemm.ee/search?q=tts&type=All&listingType=All&communityId=185&page=1&sort=TopAll

Or you can search via your local instance/interface.

[-] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 11 points 3 months ago

Text to speech is what piper is doing.
What I'm looking for is called voice changer since I want to change a voice which already read something.

That's exactly what I want: "the thing in the Darth Vader halloween masks" but for linux, preferably via CLI to ingest audio files and be able to configure it to change the voice as I want, not only Darth Vader.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

Oh, I see. I think it would still be easier to either use a different voice in piper (the github page talks about this) or use a different tts program entirely.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

So, all of the awkward pauses, the lack of inflection - you're saying keep those, just change who it sounds like is speaking?

[-] exu@feditown.com 7 points 3 months ago

In case you wanted to try other TTS providers, here's a leaderboard based on user votes.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/TTS-AGI/TTS-Arena

[-] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Check out Pied: https://github.com/Elleo/pied

[-] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I don't want to manage piper voices, I can handle that directly in my file system as I only have a few.
The issue is none of the ones I've found are good for me, so what I need is something to change the voice once it has been generated by piper.

[-] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

There are a few voices included with pied which is why I suggested it.

[-] pythia@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

what you're looking for is called RVC. It's integrated into some voice-cloning github projects but i don't use it. Here for example: https://github.com/codename0og/rvc-realtime-voice-changer

[-] xcjs@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Coincidentally, I just found this other thread that mentions EasyEffects: https://programming.dev/post/17612973

You might be able to use a virtual device to get it working for your use case.

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