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Narrate a story draft locally with Piper text-to-speech
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What this guide covers
For writers and editors who want scratch narration of a text file without a hosted service. You end with a WAV made by a downloaded stock voice, with sentence pauses and name fixes. Based on the Piper documentation and not run; voice licences are not reviewed.
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Guide title
Narrate a story draft locally with Piper text-to-speech
Coverage
For writers and editors who want scratch narration of a text file without a hosted service. You end with a WAV made by a downloaded stock voice, with sentence pauses and name fixes. Based on the Piper documentation and not run; voice licences are not reviewed.
Example
A short chapter text file is narrated to a WAV with a 0.4 second sentence pause; the file name and pause are illustrative and the example was not run.
Useful starting points
- Voices come with a model card that carries licensing terms, and some are restrictive. Read it before publishing audio.
- If the voice is not found, run Piper from the folder holding the voice files or point it at the folder you downloaded into.
- Listen to the whole file once for mispronounced names, odd pauses and clipped sentence ends.
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