Yes! I'm currently using https://espeak.sourceforge.net/, so it isn't especially fun to listen to though. Additionally, since I'm streaming the LLM response, it won't take long to get your reply. Since it does it a chunk at a time, there's occasionally only parts of words that are said momentarily. Also of course depends on what model you use or what the context size is for how long you need to wait. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

You might try espeak or - for something that looks more feature-rich - festival. Source: over 1 year ago

Hey! I’m mute too and I’ve been wanting to stream. So far I’ve decided on using eSpeak https://espeak.sourceforge.net/, a text-to-speech app for PC that allows commercial usage. You might also be able to find online text-to-speech that allows commercial usage, it just might take awhile to find. Depending on the time of content you make you could also dedicate part of your layout to a spot you could type in and... Source: over 1 year ago

Can someone point to a good open source alternative for vocaloid? I know of Sinsy [0] but I couldn't get it working. Ecantorix [1] is very old and rudimentary (it uses espeak underneath [2]). Searching just now I see OpenUtau [3] but I have no experience with it. Seems crazy there isn't a good FOSS solution for this. [0] http://www.sinsy.jp/ [1] https://github.com/divVerent/ecantorix [2]... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

The closest that I know of is espeak, https://espeak.sourceforge.net/ . It certainly doesn't cover all of the IPA though. Source: over 1 year ago

You can probably use Twilio for this, but it's a paid service. The only alternative I'm aware of is Fonoster, but that's a JavaScript API - and I have no clue if it actually works. Source: over 1 year ago

I was looking at maybe trying to use a softphone to receive calls from an Android phone. Is there any way to do this? I'm looking at maybe trying something like https://github.com/fonoster/fonoster (self-hosted twilio) aswell. Source: over 1 year ago

FN v0.3 is a feature release that will replace the main branch and includes many improvements across all the components. This version ships with support for Secrets, better integration with DialogFlow ES/CX, and improvements around observability. Link to the repo: https://github.com/fonoster/fonoster Roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/fonoster/projects/9. Source: about 2 years ago

Check out fonoster and routr for your front end and management layer on top of freeswitch. Source: over 2 years ago

Repo: https://github.com/fonoster/fonoster (I will be thrilled if you become a stargazer). Source: over 2 years ago