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Looks good, but the prompt I posted with emotional tags is only for Orpheus and is just a stripped down version of the one Orpheus ships with which is this
https://github.com/Lex-au/Orpheus-FastAPI/blob/main/System_Prompt.md
I had a different prompt for F5-TTS with emotions but this is much better. Those are both good TTS engines that need a decent GPU with at least 8GB.
For smaller, faster TTS in C++, sherpa onyx is a newer option than piper TTS
https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx
That sucks for Backyard since it was easy to install. SillyTavern\Open WebUI are a little harder but no coding is needed with Pinokio and they are all open source. SillyTavern is better for long format ERP and Open WebUI is more for productivity but has OpenAI speech API option which you can connect to a local Orpheus TTS server since it is a drop in replacement for the OpenAI speech endpoints.