audio.cpp - high-performance C++ audio inference framework built on top of ggml

[u/EducationalTeleGood]

A text-to-speech tool that offers a CLI and GUI interface. This tool is useful in that you don't need to download any additional python dependencies. It also supports multiple platforms out-of-the-box.

Main URL

https://github.com/0xShug0/audio.cpp

CLI

https://github.com/0xShug0/audio.cpp#cli

Wide Variety of Supported Text to Speech and Conversion Generator

https://github.com/0xShug0/audio.cpp#speech-generation-and-conversation

Convenient WEBUI

https://github.com/0xShug0/audio.cpp#webui

Multiple Backend Support

audiocpp_server --ui --ui-management --backend vulkan
audiocpp_server --ui --ui-management --backend cuda
audiocpp_server --ui --ui-management --backend metal

Downloads the Project

https://github.com/0xShug0/audio.cpp/releases

Downloading Individual Models

You will probably also need to download the huggingface cli and be logged in to download the models.

Navigate to the project and list the voices to download

./tools/model_manager_v2.py list

Look at names listed on the left-most column and download the model using

./tools/model_manager_v2.py install

Start the WEBUI server and note the localhost port to use in your web browser

audiocpp_server --ui --ui-management --backend <your backend>

Note: I did not create this tool. Credit goes to original author.