- Expanded Piper TTS and Coqui XTTS sections with full details
- Added Mozilla TTS (historical reference, skip in favor of Coqui)
- Added Chatterbox (voice assistant framework)
- Added Mimic 3 (Mycroft TTS, at-risk from shutdown)
- Added eSpeak NG (legacy formant synthesis, 100+ languages)
- Added Kokoro TTS (new 2024 project, StyleTTS2-based)
- Expanded Silero TTS as HIGHEST priority (actively maintained)
- Documented licenses, repositories, model hubs for all engines
- Added integration effort estimates and raccoon priorities
This update provides comprehensive tracking of all TTS engines for
the raccoon mission to rescue and integrate abandoned models.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Makefile improvements:
- Add voices-xtts target to download speaker samples
- Add test-xtts target for testing HD model
- Split voices into voices-piper and voices-xtts
- Update help text with all new targets
speech.py:
- Fix threading import scope issue for XTTS
- Remove redundant 'import threading' inside Piper block
docs/CLAUDE.md:
- Complete guide for Claude Code contributors
- Makefile-first development philosophy
- Never create dirs manually, always use Makefile
- Documentation requirements and testing philosophy
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Raccoon mission values and principles
This ensures consistent, repeatable deployments and makes it easy
to add new TTS engines following the same pattern.
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Created docs/AUDIT.md with:
- Complete file inventory and assessment
- Analysis of 10+ abandoned TTS models to integrate
- Multi-tier binary mirror strategy
- Proposed refactoring with engine abstraction
- License clarification (AGPL v3, not MIT)
This audit identifies all non-essential files for removal and documents
the plan to rescue abandoned TTS projects (Silero, StyleTTS2, Bark, etc.)
into a unified resilient system.
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