Io.github.mrfqcentic/mcp-kokoro-tts, a local Kokoro-82M text-to-speech MCP server that synthesizes and plays speech on a user's machine, released version 0.1.4 to the official MCP registry on 2026-08-…
Solo developer Owen Song released Inflect-Micro-v2, a 9.36-million-parameter English text-to-speech model that runs 6.28× faster than real time on four CPU threads and is licensed under Apache-2.0. Th…
Spiel, a free and open-source Chrome extension, reads articles and PDFs aloud using a local neural voice model on Macs with Apple Silicon, ensuring privacy by processing everything on-device without c…
NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano Super is being used to self-host a local text-to-speech app called StreamTTS, which serves audio via durable streams instead of traditional request-response APIs. The setup a…
Off Grid AI Desktop is a free, open-source app that runs chat, image generation, and voice directly on Apple Silicon Macs, using unified memory and Metal GPU acceleration. It supports models like llam…
The open-text-to-speech (TTS) landscape has shifted dramatically between 2024 and mid-2026, with open-weight models now rivaling proprietary APIs from ElevenLabs, Google, and OpenAI in quality while o…