Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languages with 173 voices
I am so disappointed. What a harmful project.<p>I apologize for the somewhat blunt language, but no matter how worthy, all software licensed under CC-NC is worthless. It&#x27;s for fun side projects that you want to die, not for anything of social value. Democratizing STT&#x2F;TTS has a <i>very clear</i> social value, but CC-NC is a dangerous trap to anything that touches it. Anyone even slightly inclined to take some money to develop it - even still in the open - MUST avoid touching NC code with ten foot pole, or abandon their plans to publish anything. The better the project, the more damage CC-NC does.<p>&quot;CC-NC considered harmful&quot; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;esr.ibiblio.org&#x2F;?p=4559" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;esr.ibiblio.org&#x2F;?p=4559</a> - by <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eric_S._Raymond" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eric_S._Raymond</a>, founder of the OSI, the organization that defines the rules for what constitutes &quot;open source&quot; [1][2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Open_Source_Initiative" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Open_Source_Initiative</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Open_Source_Definition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Open_Source_Definition</a>