What do you think about taking a different approach, like play.ht?

[mariusa]

Please see the demos and some explanations at
https://play.ht/blog/introducing-truly-realistic-text-to-speech-with-emotion-and-laughter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35328698

It'a completely different approach and solves all kinds of issues, eg #752 (which is so hard to do with the current approach that was simply ignored & closed).

Honestly, I would drop what's been done so far as code and use the professional experience gained to implement something like play.ht, which is simply amazing. I know this sounds hard/uncaring/insensitive, but the reality is that you can't compare the results between the 2 approaches. I'm afraid coqui will become completely irrelevant otherwise.

Thanks for taking a deep breath / break and considering objectively this before replying.