This one sort of works: https://elevenlabs [dot] io/languages/english
Their limit for the free tier is 10k characters per month, and that passage is just under 2k. Good luck finding a convincing Bart voice, though. Freya or Gigi run through a VST plugin to drop the pitch slightly might work, but that’s as far as I got on the free/public demo.
![[Insert Steinbeck's quote]](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/52470634-c3bb-4ac3-a3c9-edf39119a2c3.jpeg){kind=link}
Now we just need to find a sad Bart Simpson impersonator to read this.
I tried a few AI text to speech generators, but they are all paywalled, fake, or don’t work
This one sort of works:
https://elevenlabs [dot] io/languages/englishTheir limit for the free tier is 10k characters per month, and that passage is just under 2k. Good luck finding a convincing Bart voice, though. Freya or Gigi run through a VST plugin to drop the pitch slightly might work, but that’s as far as I got on the free/public demo.