XTTS: Taking TTS to the Next Level
Introduction
Voice acting plays a crucial role in the success of video games. The quality of a game’s voice over significantly impacts a player’s overall experience.
Game developers have long relied on text-to-speech (TTS) technology to make the characters sound more realistic and engaging. However, until now, most TTS technology has been limited, unable to produce expressive and natural-sounding voices. However, this is all about to change.
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of XTTS, a new TTS technology explicitly designed for game developers. XTTS delivers the most expressive and realistic TTS performances, taking game audio to the next level. Try it out now through our API, or just hear the difference:
Research
XTTS is a new technology inspired by the latest developments in the Generative AI space. XTTS has very expressive outputs, better voice cloning, and delivers all the enhanced Coqui Studio features. It’s next level! This new technology is designed specifically for game developers who want their characters to sound more realistic and captivating.
XTTS takes inspiration from large language models but focuses on delivering exceptional TTS performance. It is compatible with Coqui Studio 🐸, including prompt-to-voice and voice cloning. Furthermore, XTTS boasts superior voice cloning, enhanced studio capabilities, and improved prompt-to-voice performance relative to its predecessors.
With XTTS, game developers can now create more realistic and expressive voices for their characters.
Limitations
XTTS, while highly advanced, is slower than our core TTS technology. (XTTS takes more time, but produces higher quality results!) Nevertheless, we will continue to make our core TTS technology available for real-time use cases, as well as for our open-source users. It is still state-of-the-art when considering the trade-off between speed and quality.
Future Work
In the upcoming months, we will be introducing Coqui Studio integration of XTTS, adding new languages to our platform, speeding up XTTS, and further improving its performance. Stay tuned for more information on the upcoming language updates. In the meantime, please let us know if you have a particular language in mind that you would like us to prioritize.
Ending Words
XTTS is a game-changer for game developers. Creating realistic and expressive voices for characters, XTTS is more human than human. With its advanced features and capabilities, XTTS delivers the best TTS performance for game development. We encourage you to try out XTTS through our API and let us know your thoughts.