Hello everyone,
For some time now, I’ve been teasing Pierre-Gilles about a new service based on Gradium. It’s a French startup specializing in voice AI that’s been making waves. The free subscription allows for 1 hour of text-to-speech per month.
The idea behind the service is to let those who want to tinker a bit choose a custom voice (they even offer the voice of General de Gaulle), or to test TTS for free for new Gladys users.
Once again, Gladys Plus already gives you a ready-to-use voice and supports the project, so don’t hesitate to subscribe to Gladys Plus.
On the developer side, this is a first step that allowed us to add a TTS abstraction, and my next goal is to run local models. @McFlyPartages mentioned supertonic, version 3 was recently released and is even more performant. My initial tests are quite conclusive, but I’m trying to compare it with other models available on HuggingFace. I hope to offer you something soon.
In the meantime, for the Gradium service, I tested it with Airplay. I’ll need testers for Google Cast and Sonos. A Docker image is available bertrandda/gladys:gradium