From e1cdbb6489f6c4905c60743dc410cb9f88815b93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Danilo M." Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:26:36 +0200 Subject: piper-tts: drop in favor of python3-kokoro-onnx Kokoro-82M replaced piper as the TTS engine: piper's voices were rejected by ear, Kokoro was clearly better in both Italian and English. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- piper-tts/README | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 piper-tts/README (limited to 'piper-tts/README') diff --git a/piper-tts/README b/piper-tts/README deleted file mode 100644 index 0a2ab1a..0000000 --- a/piper-tts/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -piper-tts is a fast and local neural text-to-speech engine that embeds -espeak-ng for phonemization. It runs entirely on-device with no network -access. Voices are ONNX models. - -This package installs the prebuilt manylinux x86_64 wheel from upstream -releases. The console script is renamed from 'piper' to 'piper-tts' to -avoid clashing with the SBo 'piper' (libratbag mouse tool). - -Runtime dependencies (packaged separately): - python3-onnxruntime - python3-pathvalidate - -Homepage: https://github.com/OHF-voice/piper1-gpl -- cgit v1.2.3