It's interesting that the male voices are all so much worse than the female voices (several are quite good). There is bias in machine learning, but I wonder whether there is also systematically more training data of female speech?
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#32https://github.com/rhulha/StreamingKokoroJS all in browser, 100% private, nothing tracked
I tried it but it did not function.
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#33Love this model. I’m GPU poor and have had FOMO that I haven’t played with local models at all. About a month ago I setup Kokoro on my GTX1650 to do TTS for an article reader. A simple WebUI lets me paste a URL or a chunk of copy pasted text. Python cleans it up and sends to Kokoro for TTS and it’s then served via RSS for Apple Podcasts. Then for my morning drive I’ll catch up on articles or blog posts I’ve gathered.
At some point I’d like to play with separate voices and see if I could build something like NotebookLM for kind of like a radio morning show of news items I’ve gathered.
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#34When I hear the male voice I think: "Ok, it's the Youtube guy".
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#35I just hooked it up to my personal AI Japanese Teacher app, pretty good quality / natural sounding speech in mixed English / Japanese while running fast on CPU so I don't waste VRAM.
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#36Cool I actually got it ported to iPhone’s ANE finally yesterday! So we can get both rt natural local TTS and 4x less battery drainage and thermals
lol, I just finished a port to the iPhone ANE as well. I would love to compare notes
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#38Naive question, but I once downloaded a particular voice file that I wanted to use with some other RVC TTS project, but ended up not being able to run it CPU only, so I only kept the voice I wanted.
Thing is, the voice is in .pth format, and on Kokoro's huggingface page, their voices are all .pt.
Would I be able to use this voice I already have with Kokoro? If not, is there any way to convert it? I could always go looking if someone made this specific voice but in .pt format, but I barely mess with AI and don't know how I could search for this.
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#39Super cool!!
I've been using my own solution since January. I'm on Linux, and can't use Aqua, Whipsrflow etc... So i made my own.
Recently cleaned it up and made it install friendly.
If anyone is interested, you can check it out here: https://github.com/Hugo0/voiceio
It's self-improving over time, runs on your local machine, and is generally decent software. 60% of my interaction with my PC nowadays is pure voice input.
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#40Who is going to hack together a mac widget that allows us to select text anywhere, press a shortcut key and finally get a non robotic voice outputted in a reasonable amount of time?
I am aware of the Option + Esc shortcut on osx for the onboard TTS but wow is it hard to listen to in 2026.