Most TTS and speech synthesis can be easy to install if you get rid of the GPU requirement. Both AMD and Nvidia have horrible workflows for installing their drivers and neural network/linear algebra kernels. Real time speech recognition/synthesis on generic consumer grade Intels/AMD cores is very, very difficult to do well which is why most providers are cloud based. (The alternative is targeting Mac only as they have standardized hardware everywhere)
Yeah, text-to-speech is and has been easy for ages; I'm pretty sure I used espeak like a decade ago. On the other hand, I have tried... pretty much all the big names in speech-to-text, without success, or at best "I kind of got the demo to work but couldn't figure out how to do anything useful with it". Kaldi, sphinx, julius, a handful of tiny PoC things I found online... maybe I'm just bad at following instructions, or I'm trying to do something that they're not trying to optimize for, but I have not had a good time.
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Most TTS and speech synthesis can be easy to install if you get rid of the GPU requirement. Both AMD and Nvidia have horrible workflows for installing their drivers and neural network/linear algebra kernels. Real time speech recognition/synthesis on generic consumer grade Intels/AMD cores is very, very difficult to do well which is why most providers are cloud based. (The alternative is targeting Mac only as they have standardized hardware everywhere)
Yeah, text-to-speech is and has been easy for ages; I'm pretty sure I used espeak like a decade ago. On the other hand, I have tried... pretty much all the big names in speech-to-text, without success, or at best "I kind of got the demo to work but couldn't figure out how to do anything useful with it". Kaldi, sphinx, julius, a handful of tiny PoC things I found online... maybe I'm just bad at following instructions, or I'm trying to do something that they're not trying to optimize for, but I have not had a good time.