I’m a firefighter who’s also a software engineer and am working on a training app. In it, I have it generating text dispatches of various scenes for us to discuss on rainy slow training days. Such as “Respond to 123 Main st, for a report of a smell of smoke” etc.
I already use google maps to generate a random address and show the map / street view. With the maps api I can domain lock the key…
But with their Text to Speech api I cannot. Seems silly. But I get it.
Are there any alternatives? I would be ok spinning up a middle server to also rework the audio to generate radio static, etc, but first pass I am looking for non-robotic (ie not browser based) TTS.
Thoughts?
if i read this correctly a piper has webasm bindings too? I am running the training app in a browser as a vue3+ts stack. So I could spin up a worker on cloudflare, api key lock, and then use that or run it all browser side with wasm.
Time to tinker!
Give it a shot. Its been a full year since ive messed with this so let me know how it goes. Might be some better stuff out now. But yeah piper/eSpeak both have fantastic performance. You can even put it on your phone should the need arise: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine/
cool! i know cf workers ai can run a tts model and i can domain lock the api key… but this seems cooler. :)