What is Toucan TTS
Toucan TTS is a text-to-speech synthesis toolkit developed by the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. It supports over 7,000 languages, including many dialects and variants. Toucan TTS is built on Python and PyTorch, is easy to use, and is powerful. It offers multi-speaker speech synthesis, voice style cloning, and human-machine interactive editing, making it suitable for scenarios such as speech model teaching, text reading, and multilingual application development. As an open-source project, ToucanTTS is based on the Apache 2.0 license, allowing users and developers to freely use and modify the code to adapt to different application needs.
Main features of Toucan TTS
- Multilingual speech synthesis: Toucan TTS can process and generate speech in over 7,000 different languages, including various dialects and language variants, making it one of the TTS projects with the broadest global language support.
- Multi-speaker support: This toolkit supports multi-speaker speech synthesis, allowing users to select or create speaker models with different voice characteristics to achieve personalized speech output.
- Human-machine interactive editing: Toucan TTS provides human-machine interactive editing, allowing users to make detailed adjustments to synthesized speech to suit different application scenarios, such as literary recitation or educational materials.
- Voice style cloning: Users can use Toucan TTS to clone the voice style of a specific speaker, including rhythm, stress, and intonation, making the synthesized speech closer to the original speaker's voice characteristics.
- Speech parameter adjustment: ToucanTTS allows users to adjust parameters such as speech duration, pitch variation, and energy variation to control speech fluency, emotional expression, and voice characteristics.
- Adjustment of pronunciation clarity and gender characteristics: Users can adjust the clarity and gender characteristics of speech as needed, making the synthesized speech more natural and better suited to the needs of a specific character or scenario.
- Interactive demo: Toucan TTS provides an online interactive demo. Users can experience and test speech synthesis results in real time through a web interface, which helps users quickly understand and use the toolkit's features.
How to use Toucan TTS
Ordinary users can go to Hugging Face to experience Toucan TTS's online text-to-speech and voice cloning Demo, while developers can visit its GitHub project repository and clone its code locally for deployment and running.
- Official GitHub code repository:https://github.com/DigitalPhonetics/IMS-Toucan
- Hugging Face online TTS Demo:https://huggingface.co/spaces/Flux9665/MassivelyMultilingualTTS
- Hugging Face online voice cloning Demo:https://huggingface.co/spaces/Flux9665/SpeechCloning
- Hugging Face TTS dataset:https://huggingface.co/datasets/Flux9665/BibleMMS
Application scenarios of Toucan TTS
- Literary recitation: Synthesize speech for poems, literary works, and web content for recitation appreciation or as audiobooks.
- Multilingual application development: Provide speech synthesis services for applications that require multilingual support, such as internationalized software and games.
- Assistive technology: Provide text-to-speech services for visually impaired people or those with reading difficulties, helping them better access information.
- Customer service: Used in customer service systems to provide multilingual automated voice replies or interactive voice response systems.
- News and media: Automatically convert news articles into speech, providing busy listeners with a convenient way to access news.
- Film and video production: Generate voiceovers for films, animations, or video content, especially when the original audio is unavailable or a specific language version is needed.
- Audiobook production: Convert e-books or documents into audiobooks for users who prefer listening to books.