Narration of the short story ‘Selling Point’ by Norman Arkawy using a Tortoise TTS model generating a familiar-sounding, expressive, British voice.
Originally published in ‘Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy’, December 1955.
One of my favorite short stories.
Full story text:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/66713/pg66713.txt
Training: 10 epochs total. Epochs 1-4 LR 1e-5, 5-6 LR 1e-6, 7-10 LR 1e-7
Mel/Text: 1.0
Cosine annealing, 1 restart/2 epochs
Requires custom tokenizer, as prepared in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7QRbMvFPzs
Base model here: https://huggingface.co/AOLCDROM/Tortoise-TTS-MSFT-VCTK-4V-En