Out Loud is a free, open-source AI text-to-speech app that runs 100% offline. Nothing you read or type ever leaves your device — no cloud, no accounts, no tracking. Get 50+ natural voices across 8 languages (English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, and more) on macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a Chrome extension that reads any webpage, PDF, or email aloud with one click.
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6 Comments
frongt@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 79d
https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M#training-details
The model uses freely licensed audio. Nice.
But it also uses synthetic audio from closed-source models and unspecified open-source licenses. Not nice.
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 79d
Oh it’s just using kokoro? Lol
Mensh123@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 79d
But is there any way I can get the dataset? If not, none of this is completely open source per OSI. The model itself is even advertised as “open-weight”, not open source.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 79d
I don't do much TTS but is this better than the non-AI equivalent?
Maybe my ears are bad because I've listen to too much human made loud music, but it sounds more artificial than the default say command on OSX.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 79d
There's quite a quality difference between the different voices.
For example in the English (UK) ones, there's 8 of them, which vary between "pretty good" and "robotic".
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
those samples sounded better than these ones from 2023 to me, but can we even know that apple is or isn't using AI for new versions of say?
https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/2w/gw/r3/4n/