Title question mostly. I’ve played with XTTS-v2 and it worked pretty well, but I’m wondering if folks are using anything else special. I’d like to train my own voice finetune which is what I did with XTTS-v2, and then use it with home assistant’s voice feature. Welcome all opinions on it!
Yeah, so I dug into it, and it’s definitely not offline. It uses gtts, which ultimately makes calls to google.com for the tts. You can track it down yourself, but you’ll eventually end up here, which talks about how to change the google host name in case it’s blocked.
I’m not sure why you believe not needing an API key means it isn’t calling a Google API, especially in this case where it clearly states it’s using an unofficial channel - which is the same trick third party YouTube clients use to access YouTube videos without using API keys.