Picked a free AI voice tool over a paid one and got better results

I needed to generate some voiceovers for a small project last week. I was deciding between a $30 subscription tool and a free open source one called Piper TTS. The paid one sounded smoother at first but the free one let me tweak the speed and pitch way more. Ended up using the free one for all 12 clips and they sounded fine. No regrets about saving the money. Has anyone else tried free voice tools that beat the paid versions?

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eva66618d ago

lol same thing happened with me and some music stuff. I was gonna pay for this one voice program but tried out Piper first cause someone on reddit said it was good. The paid one had these preset voices that sounded nice but you couldn't change anything. Piper let me slow down the speech and make it deeper which was perfect for the spooky narration I needed. Honestly saved me like 40 bucks and nobody could tell the difference in the final project.

the_jake18d ago

Oh man that reminds me of when I was trying to find a good synth plugin for some lofi beats I was messing with. I almost dropped like 50 bucks on this one that had all these fancy presets but then I found this free one called Vital that let me tweak everything from scratch. Took me forever to figure out how to make it sound right but now I actually prefer it to the paid stuff. Idk I feel like sometimes the free options make you learn more about what you're actually doing.