## AI Voice Actors 🤖

AI voice actors allow you **to use customizable voices that perfectly match your characters or narration needs.**

These tools allow you not only to prototype with these voices but also **use them during production 🔥**

## Replica Studios 💸 🔒

[Replica Studios](https://www.replicastudios.com/) is my **favorite voice generation tool**.

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It provides a **voice library and a studio browser tool** that allows you to generate realistic voices.

<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface-ml-4-games-course/course-images/resolve/main/en/unit2/replica.jpg" alt="Replica Studios" />

In addition to being used to **produce offline dialog,** it can be **used live** in the game, thanks to their API.

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👉 [Replica Studios Website](https://www.replicastudios.com/)

## Coqui 🆓 🤗

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[Coqui](https://huggingface.co/spaces/coqui/xtts) is an open-source platform for speech technology that allows you to **create realistic voices with their XTTS models.**

Unfortunately, Coqui company was closed, **but the model is still available and usable in the Hugging Face Space** ❤️

👉 https://huggingface.co/spaces/coqui/xtts

## Parler TTS 🆓 🤗

[Parler TTS](https://huggingface.co/spaces/parler-tts/parler_tts_mini) is an open-source model that **generates high-quality speech**. 

Its features can be **controlled using a simple text prompt** (gender, background noise, speaking rate, pitch, and reverberation).

You can try it here 👉 https://huggingface.co/spaces/parler-tts/parler_tts_mini

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