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Can you paste your system specs here for me? It's running for me just fine and on a few other laptops here, but I am curious if there's something on your laptop that might be giving issues... It does require Mac w/ Apple M1+. Happy to debug and get it working for you!
Mac mini m4 16gb, latest updates.
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#12It would be nice to have a sample of the audio quality and voice(s) it uses on the website so we know what it will sound like. -- Edit: I installed it, ran it and got the first time wizard, granted permissions and hit continue and it just exits without any other message or screen. It isn't in the menu bar. I run it again and get the same. It says the permissions are granted already the second time though. I like the…
I experience the same. M5 Pro MBP, 64gb RAM. If I click "skip" on the wizard, it gets 1 screen further then crashes with no feedback on next interaction.
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#14Surprised at how little traction this has gotten here, I reckon I could get a lot of use out of this once the iOS app comes along - Instapaper that I can use while walking the dogs.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you paste your system specs here for me? It's running for me just fine and on a few other laptops here, but I am curious if there's something on your laptop that might be giving issues... It does require Mac w/ Apple M1+. Happy to debug and get it working for you!
Mac mini m4 16gb, latest updates.
Re: Show HN: Orate – On-device neural text-to-speech queue for Mac
#16It would be nice to have a sample of the audio quality and voice(s) it uses on the website so we know what it will sound like. -- Edit: I installed it, ran it and got the first time wizard, granted permissions and hit continue and it just exits without any other message or screen. It isn't in the menu bar. I run it again and get the same. It says the permissions are granted already the second time though. I like the…
I experience the same. M5 Pro MBP, 64gb RAM. If I click "skip" on the wizard, it gets 1 screen further then crashes with no feedback on next interaction.
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I experience the same. M5 Pro MBP, 64gb RAM. If I click "skip" on the wizard, it gets 1 screen further then crashes with no feedback on next interaction.
Okay, 0.1.9 is out now and should fix the issue... I also added a way to report crashes, so IF it still gives you issues, let me know and please report the crash
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Mac mini m4 16gb, latest updates.
Okay, 0.1.9 is out now and should fix the issue... I also added a way to report crashes, so IF it still gives you issues, let me know and please report the crash
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Okay, 0.1.9 is out now and should fix the issue... I also added a way to report crashes, so IF it still gives you issues, let me know and please report the crash
Tried it out - tested on a few bits of text and it reads 1 sentence then goes non-responsive and pegs a cpu core to 100%. It doesn't crash so I don't have opportunity to report. I have to force quit the app manually.