With the release and hype around Drama-3 by Fish Audio, I've decided to challenge myself & create my own TTS model in my spare time.

It is 1/10th the size of Drama 3, can be just as expressive, and can take instructions about emotion and pacing for fine-grained output.

Obviously it's not perfect, but from my experience still better than whatever is out there at this size. Burned 300 bucks on this thing so enjoy.

Demo: https://vojtechcekal.com/hlas

P.S.: it's a Breeze v2 finetune (best open weight base model out there overall) so their weird license applies (unfortunately). Might finetune on a more permissive base in the future.