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		satvikpendem 68 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source T... `say` sounds terrible compared to modern neural network based text to speech engines.

wewewedxfgdf 68 days ago [–]

Sounds about the same as Kitten TTS.

satvikpendem 68 days ago | [–]

To me it sounds worse, especially on the construction of certain more complex sentences or words.

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