Re: Piper TTS - AI system voices

[Mama Peach]

It is great, I recommend it to anybody. On Jul 6, 2026, at 7:44 AM, Ivan Icin <labsiiser...@gmail.com> wrote: Piper TTS app is available for some time on the App Store, but as far as I can search it wasn't mentioned here. It is based on open-source Piper voice engine and it is completely free. Similar to eSpeak NG it provides voices to the operating system, which means they can be used anywhere - accessibility tools, apps that support system voices. However unlike eSpeak that featured robotic voices Piper TTS features AI level voices. One thing to note is that AI voices are demanding, so you should expect some limitations: Latency may be non-trivial and more recent devices are recommended Even small latency may not be acceptable for daily VoiceOver use, but for other use cases like continuous reading at natural speeds of longer text with system tools or 3rd party apps that shouldn't be a notable issue Some sweet spot are "mid" quality voices - there isn't a huge jump in quality between low/mid/high and high quality voices have the unacceptable latency while low quality may not bring a huge boost in latency Not all voices are of the same quality,  a good choice for start is the voice named LJSpeech You need to download voices in the Piper app before using them, out of box the app comes empty Here is the App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/piper-neural-tts/id6759636010 -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/fce981e2-ed19-4b67-b3cb-3164ee9a5671n%40googlegroups.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/5B672891-9A68-456D-93CA-4D90F975987E%40gmail.com.