Toucan TTS - a free and open-source text-to-speech tool that supports over 7,000 languages.

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, Germany. It supports over 7,000 languages, including various dialects and variants. Built with Python and PyTorch, Toucan TTS is easy to use yet powerful, offering multi-speaker speech synthesis, speech style cloning, and interactive editing features. It is suitable for scenarios such as speech model teaching, text-to-speech, and multilingual application development. As an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license, Toucan TTS allows users and developers to freely use and modify the code to adapt to different application needs.

Main functions of Toucan TTS

• Multilingual speech synthesisToucan TTS can process and generate speech in more than 7,000 different languages, including various dialects and language variants, making it one of the most language-supported TTS projects in the world.
• More people supportThis toolbox supports multi-speaker speech synthesis, allowing users to select or create speaker models with different speech features to achieve personalized speech output.
• Human-computer interaction editingToucan TTS offers interactive editing features, allowing users to fine-tune the synthesized speech to suit different application scenarios, such as literary recitation or educational materials.
• Voice style cloningUsers can use Toucan TTS to clone the voice style of a specific speaker, including rhythm, stress, and intonation, making the synthesized speech more closely resemble the original speaker's voice characteristics.
• Voice parameter adjustmentToucanTTS allows users to adjust parameters such as speech duration, pitch variation, and energy variation to control speech fluency, emotional expression, and vocal characteristics.
• Pronunciation clarity and gender characteristics adjustmentUsers can adjust the clarity and gender characteristics of the voice as needed, making the synthesized voice more natural and in line with the needs of specific roles or scenarios.
• Interactive demonstrationToucan TTS offers an online interactive demo, allowing users to experience and test the speech synthesis effect in real time through a web interface. This helps users quickly understand and use the toolbox's functions.

How to use Toucan TTS

Regular users can visit Hugging Face to experience Toucan TTS's online text-to-speech and voice cloning demos, while developers can access its GitHub repository to clone its code for local deployment and operation.

• Official GitHub 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 recitationIt can synthesize the audio of poems, literary works, and web page content for recitation and appreciation or as audiobooks.
• Multilingual application developmentProvides speech synthesis services for applications that require multilingual support, such as internationalized software and games.
• assistive technologyIt provides text-to-speech services for visually impaired or reading-impaired individuals to help them access information more effectively.
• Customer ServiceUsed in customer service systems to provide multilingual automated voice responses or interactive voice reply systems.
• News and MediaIt automatically converts news articles into audio, providing busy listeners with a convenient way to access news.
• Film and video production: Generate voiceovers for movies, animations, or video content, especially when the original audio is unavailable or a specific language version is required.
• Audiobook productionConvert ebooks or documents into audiobooks for users who prefer listening to audiobooks.