I have several tapes (yes actual cassette tapes) of my grandfather reading a novel.
Unfortunately a few of the tapes have degraded to the point that I cannot play them back.
I would love to recreate his voice, to “rerecord” the missing bits.
The recordings are in Danish.
Is this possible?
If it is, how can I go about it?
Elvenlabs is currently the best but you can get some very good results with first xtts then rvc as a second pass. It involves fine tuning models and running things with python and notebooks, so requires some know how.
You can explore more models on the huggingface page https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-to-speech&sort=trending
Most have a huggingface space dedicated to them where you can try them, here is the xtts space for example https://huggingface.co/spaces/coqui/xtts
The language adds an other layer of difficulty, I would try their demo first to see if it gives anything workable but it isn’t a language current tts software cater too, it doesn’t seem to be an available option on xtts sadly.
Thank you for the tips. As I see it currently, I expect the language to be the biggest hurdle. It doesn’t appear like something I can add myself, even if I had the data for a model. So as far as I can tell it involves two currently more or less impossible steps: Get model data and teach language to model.