Even though ElevenLabs remains the quality leader, the others aren't that far behind.
There are even a bunch of good TTS models being released as fully open source, especially by cutting-edge Chinese labs and companies. Perhaps in a bid to cut off the legs of American AI companies or to commoditize their compliment. Whatever the case, it's great for consumers.
YCombinator-backed PlayHT has been releasing some of their good stuff too.
https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-framework/user-guide/latest/nem...
You can always rewrite the text to avoid times where one would naturally laugh through the next couple of following words but that's just attempting to avoid the problem and do a different kind of laugh instead.