It seems like a lot of the entries in TTS are either close sourced saas apps or something like this with limitations on customizing it. It seems clearly inevitable and likely only months away that a high quality unrestricted open source option for things like voice cloning will emerge so i'm not sure why these projects are even really bothering trying to stop it. I think in order for TTS to have its StableDiffusion moment it will just be a matter of an unrestricted easily trainable open source model.
No, the power and money to run high quality servers like ChatGPT4 and MidJourney or DallE. Sure there's local-able alternatives, but they're lower quality and lower bandwidth and not being used as a business proposition.
Just like a private individual can own lock smith tools and play around with locks... don't go basing your business of supplying them wholesale to the general public worldwide for free.
Local LLMs are in production as the backbone of highly valued businesses. That will increasingly be true with the advent of commercially licensed foundation models currently in training such as StableLM and RedPajamas.
