TTS or Text to Speech Generation tools like 11elevenlabs are paid and most of these stuff online must have been open for free to the public are instead of being paywalled behind subscriptions and alternatively free with ads + long queue. How did I land with this creative method?

1. I had a very weak PC with older specs, 3th generation Core i5 with no GPU support. Me and a friend wanted to start this project that required us to generate TTS for our work.
2. Most of free options online either allow you generate maximum of 30-60 seconds with long queue of people generating TTS.
3. Most free options online had bad TTS quality and sometimes sound laggy and chopped.
4. I wanted to have the ability to generate 5 minutes or more if possible, in one go without hassle of going back and forth with free tools me 30-60 seconds + long queue.

Accidently while I was asking grok to recommend me the best TTS models we can use online either ads based or free monthly credited, I saw that you can let grok narrate or read aloud it responses back to you after they are generated. I discovered that grok has a library of narrators you can use for free I can use without the hussle of setting up a TTS Model and going back and forth generating all the texts I needed if I used a service or model. But you need to prompt or send the entire script to grok first and then respond it back to you so it can narrate it.

I tested grok TTS narration and most of them were high quality and clean with a collection of voice library you can choose from.

I faced another problem! How am I going to export the grok TTS narrations I needed? At the moment I went with recording all the narrations I needed with OBS Studio and then exporting it.

Hope you find this helpful! If you have found another TTS libraries I can try or you have got another creative way to handle effortlessly generating TTS without going through all the technical, hardware requirements and TTS generation. Email me at workubilal@gmail.com.