alt Hacker NewsClosed model unfortunately, continues the theme of TTS / STT being really not great for local deployments.
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Best sounding local TTS engine I've heard by far is Kokoro
It's small enough to be run on modern phones realtime, I use it for listening to PDF's/EPUB as Audiobooks
Funny because Gradium just released a local TTS that runs on many devices
What options would you run locally at this stage? I'm finding a ton of success with local models in this space ..
My favorite so far is https://speaches.ai
Not because of the models, but because it comes in a nice (easy-to-set-up) package, and the latency was lower than I expected with such a setup.
Omnivoice is pretty good
> Available via Mistral’s EU-hosted API or self-deployment
What does this mean then?
Breeze is pretty good imho.
Dang, this could have been fun for home assistent.
Too bad it's not open, unlike the previous version.
However, I found Qwen ASR and QwenTTS to be quite good, and not too large. Also https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts was also great (but only a few languages)