Ask HN: Is the Open-Source Google Voice Builder Really Tied to GCE?

1 points by aliswe 6y ago ↗ HN

I'm just checking out this project: https://github.com/google/voice-builder

And I reason that if this really is an open source (though unofficial) product then it probably isn't using the GCE functionality for Text-to-Speech. ( https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ )

The code uses Firebase (etc) though.

Can anyone confirm? If the engine is any good it'd be good to know that it isn't hard tied to any specific cloud vendor ...

Otherwise I've just tried MaryTTS (which worked really nice).

Can you recommend any other good Free, OSS solutions? eSpeak really sounded terrible, IMO. ( http://espeak.sourceforge.net/samples/raven.ogg )

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yorwba 6y ago ↗

Digging into the Docker images reveals that the underlying engines are http://festvox.org/ and http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/merlin/

verdverm 6y ago ↗

This should be easy to move to another cloud. It's only using serverless funcs and cloud storage, from a quick glance. Dockerfiles for all pieces.