WhisperSpeech
An Open Source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
...The project aims to be for speech what Stable Diffusion is for images: powerful, hackable, and safe for commercial use, with code under Apache-2.0/MIT and models trained only on properly licensed data. Its architecture follows a token-based, multi-stage pipeline inspired by AudioLM and SPEAR-TTS: Whisper is used to produce semantic tokens, EnCodec compresses the waveform into acoustic tokens, and Vocos reconstructs high-fidelity audio from those tokens. The repository includes notebooks and scripts for inference, long-form synthesis, and finetuning, as well as pre-trained models and converted datasets hosted on Hugging Face. ...