Streaming real-time text to speech with XTTS V2
Apr 18, 2024

Summary
This post details the implementation of a streaming real-time text-to-speech (TTS) endpoint for the XTTS V2 model using Baseten's Truss framework. It highlights how to leverage the model's `inference_stream()` function to yield audio chunks as they are generated, enabling near real-time audio playback with a round-trip time to the first chunk as low as 200 milliseconds. The post provides code examples for loading the model, configuring inference for streaming, and consuming the audio stream on the client-side using `ffplay`.