Thanks for all the nice comments, I was working really hard on this model for quite a few months now but there are still a lot of ways we can make it better.
Thanks to generosity of Collabora this is a real open-source project (not just a one-time marketing ploy), so if you want to help improve it or integrate it into something you are building, I'd love to help.
You can also buy our undivided engineering attention if you have a business use-case. :)
We're probably interested! We're Overte, an open source VR/Desktop social platform.
The system targets VR and voice chat primarily, but we want to be more accessible to people who can't use voice chat for any reason. We do have an integrated chat, but it's not an ideal experience in VR. So good TTS to make it integrate better would be great for us. And the possibility of doing this without some sort of commercial API that requires keeping a secret API key is huge.
So yeah, we're very much interested in giving this one a try. It will probably take some time as we're gearing up for FOSDEM now, though.
I'm developing a dynamic tutorial desktop app and I plan to use this model as text to speech synthesizer. Any chance it can be ported to ONNX format?