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		wewewedxfgdf 34 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech M... I'm really hoping one day there will be TTS does that does really nice British accents - I've surveyed them all deeply, none do. Most that claim to do a British accent end up sounding like Kelsey Grammer - sort of an American accent pretending to be British.

specproc 34 days ago | [–]

I'd like one that really nails Brummie.

xp84 33 days ago | [–]

I’m just a yank, but a lot of the AI-voiced videos on YouTube that I’ve been listening to while I’m falling asleep lately have British voices that sound quite nice to me.

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