A developer has built Mana, a voice AI assistant that runs entirely on a local machine with an 8GB VRAM GPU, achieving 2-3 second response times by using a single 4B model for reasoning, code generati…
Orate, a one-time $4.99 purchase, offers on-device neural text-to-speech for Mac using Kokoro for standard voice and Chatterbox for HD voice, processing articles and emails offline from the menu bar w…
Brad, a longtime HN user and founder, launched Orate, a native Mac app that queues selected text for on-device neural text-to-speech using AI models like Kokoro and optional Chatterbox for HD voices. …
A free, browser-based voice cloning tool from Resemble AI runs the open-weight Chatterbox model entirely on-device using WebGPU or WebAssembly, keeping all audio and text local with no upload, signup,…
Voicebox, a free and open-source AI voice studio, launches as a local-first alternative to ElevenLabs and WisprFlow, enabling voice cloning, speech generation in 23 languages, and dictation with full …
Resemble AI released Chatterbox, a speech synthesis system that uses a single scalar to control emotion in generated audio, combining a 0.5B Llama language model with classifier-free guidance, an S3Ge…