# Samuel: A Silly Speech Model

> Source: <https://vvolhejn.com/blog/2026-08-17-samuel>
> Published: 2026-08-20 07:28:21+00:00

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# Samuel: A silly speech model

I trained a model that parrots speech using Pink Trombone, a silly vocal tract simulator.

Try it [here](https://samuel.vvolhejn.com/), or read the code [here](https://github.com/vvolhejn/samuel).

I'm soon going to expand this blog post with information about how I trained this model. Check back soon!

Trained using spare GPU capacity from my work at [Kyutai](https://kyutai.org/), an open-source AI lab.
To 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.
A big thank you to my colleagues for all the speech AI wisdom without which I'd have no idea how to approach this project!

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