{"slug": "samuel-a-silly-speech-model", "title": "Samuel: A Silly Speech Model", "summary": "A developer trained a speech model that parrots speech using Pink Trombone, a vocal tract simulator, and released it at samuel.vvolhejn.com with code on GitHub. The model was trained using spare GPU capacity from Kyutai, an open-source AI lab, using only 1-2 GPUs from the interactive jobs partition. The developer plans to expand the blog post with training details.", "body_md": "[← Back](/)\n\n# Samuel: A silly speech model\n\nI trained a model that parrots speech using Pink Trombone, a silly vocal tract simulator.\n\nTry it [here](https://samuel.vvolhejn.com/), or read the code [here](https://github.com/vvolhejn/samuel).\n\nI'm soon going to expand this blog post with information about how I trained this model. Check back soon!\n\nTrained using spare GPU capacity from my work at [Kyutai](https://kyutai.org/), an open-source AI lab.\nTo not take compute from official projects, I made sure to use only 1-2 GPUs from the partition dedicated to interactive jobs, which always has a few unused GPUs.\nA big thank you to my colleagues for all the speech AI wisdom without which I'd have no idea how to approach this project!\n\n[← Back](/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/samuel-a-silly-speech-model", "canonical_source": "https://vvolhejn.com/blog/2026-08-17-samuel", "published_at": "2026-08-20 07:28:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-20 07:43:26.202660+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Pink Trombone", "Kyutai", "Samuel"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/samuel-a-silly-speech-model", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/samuel-a-silly-speech-model.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/samuel-a-silly-speech-model.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/samuel-a-silly-speech-model.jsonld"}}