README.md

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title: "Mockingbird"
app_file: app.py
sdk: "streamlit"
python_version: 3.11
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# Mockingbird TTS Demo
This repo hosts Mockingbird, a demo of open Text-to-Speech tools.

Currently, 3 synthesizers are supported:
- [**Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS)**](https://ai.meta.com/blog/multilingual-model-speech-recognition/) model
- [**Coqui's TTS**](https://docs.coqui.ai/en/latest/#) package and the models supplied via that
- [**ESpeak-NG's**](espeak-ng) synthetic voices

Voice conversion is achieved through Coqui.

Notes:
1. ESpeak-NG seems to have the worst performance out of the box, but it has a lot of options for controlling voice output.
2. Coqui is no longer being officially developed.
3. Where a synthesizer supports multiple models/voices, I manually pick the appropriate model.
4. Not all synthesizers support a given language.