
Explore ai voice technologies, including text-to-speech and voice cloning, and learn to clone your own voice and build your own audio services for audiobooks, podcasts, or videos.
Discover Visual Studio Code, a free open-source IDE with thousands of plugins and GitHub Copilot integration, ideal for backend or frontend development, with a simple install and familiar layout.
Learn to convert text to speech with gtts in Visual Studio Code, install the Python package, and generate audio via command line or Python, noting internet requirements and text limits.
Explore VITS, an open source text-to-speech model, and learn to run inference on Google Colab by cloning the repo, installing libraries, loading the model, and generating natural audio.
Course: Mastering AI Voices Technologies
Part 1: Introduction to the Course: AI Voices Technology
An overview of the course, how to approach learning, and an introduction to tools like Google Colab and Visual Studio Code for TTS development.
Part 2: Old Fashioned Text To Speech
Exploring traditional TTS methods using libraries like pyttsx3 and gTTS, both offline and through Google Colab.
Part 3: Big Text To Speech Providers
Introduction to major TTS providers such as 11lab, Speechify, and OpenAI, highlighting their services and capabilities.
Part 4: Open Source TTS: VITS
A deep dive into VITS (Variational Inference Text-to-Speech) technology, including how to run it and why it's considered a powerful method for high-quality speech synthesis.
Part 5: Voice Cloning with Piper TTS
An exploration of voice cloning techniques using Piper TTS, including setup, training, and voice cloning in multiple languages (e.g., English and Vietnamese).
Part 6: Voice Cloning with Open Voices
Introduction to OpenVoices, focusing on voice cloning for English and multi-language support for cross-lingual voice synthesis.
Part 7: Voice Cloning with Tortoise TTS (XTTS)
Learn about Tortoise TTS, an advanced system for voice cloning, and how to fine-tune it for different languages, including English and Vietnamese and more languages