.:Demo:. Tortoise TTS Expressive Speech narrating Norman Arkawy's 1955 Sci-Fi short "Selling Point"

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Narration of the short story 'Selling Point' by Norman Arkawy using a Tortoise TTS model generating a familiar-sounding, expressive, British voice.

Originally published in 'Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy', December 1955.

One of my favorite short stories.

Full story text:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/66713/pg66713.txt

Training: 10 epochs total. Epochs 1-4 LR 1e-5, 5-6 LR 1e-6, 7-10 LR 1e-7
Mel/Text: 1.0
Cosine annealing, 1 restart/2 epochs
Requires custom tokenizer, as prepared in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7QRbMvFPzs

Base model here: https://huggingface.co/AOLCDROM/Tortoise-TTS-MSFT-VCTK-4V-En




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TTS
AI Voice
Voice Cloning
Tortoise TTS