Please improve the TTS of NABU CASA…
it works well but definitely far from quality TTS.
Please provide some detail. What exactly are you unhappy with?
I tried Elevenlab for tts… and it is very advanced. Naturalness and expressiveness of language (I would not like to pay a second subscription beyond NABU CASA).
I’m sure that if Nabu Casa were to switch TTS providers (if they use a third party), or train more advanced models (if they host it internally), in either case - this would result in increased costs for them which they would have to pass on to us, their subscribers.
Advanced (neural-based) TTS is more costly to run, as it demands higher quality hardware and increased power.
If you have a spare graphics card at home, you can always run TTS locally - personally, I run AllTalk v2 which is an interface for xTTS, and Home Assistant uses that as its TTS provider. I find the quality on par with, or better than, Mabu Casa Cloud. And response speed is also roughly the same.