Elevenlabs is very slow.
We have two options.
We can use the "Luna" voice from Deepgram: https://deepgram.com/
It is very fast and cheap to use, but it is cloud hosted.
The other and better option is using a local voice with VITS. We can use this package to keep it all in node.js
https://github.com/ianmarmour/speech-synthesizer
Elevenlabs is very slow.
We have two options.
We can use the "Luna" voice from Deepgram: https://deepgram.com/
It is very fast and cheap to use, but it is cloud hosted.
The other and better option is using a local voice with VITS. We can use this package to keep it all in node.js
https://github.com/ianmarmour/speech-synthesizer