{"slug": "scenema-audio-gibberish-output-and-hugging-face-ssl-403-download-error", "title": "Scenema-Audio: Gibberish Output and Hugging Face SSL/403 Download error", "summary": "A user reports that running Scenema Audio locally with Podman produces gibberish output and fails to download the ~4.9 GB transformer checkpoint from Hugging Face due to SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED, Read timed out, and 403 Forbidden errors. The user's Hugging Face token works and corporate CA certificates are installed, but the download still fails, prompting a request for fixes.", "body_md": "Hi people,\n\nI’m trying to run Scenema Audio locally with Podman. I’m facing two issues:\n\nGibberish output: The model generates unintelligible audio instead of the expected speech.\n\nHugging Face download: The ~4.9 GB transformer checkpoint fails with SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED, Read timed out, and eventually 403 Forbidden – Make sure your token has the correct permissions.\n\nMy Hugging Face token is working (whoami() returns successfully), and I’ve also added the corporate CA certificate provided by IT. A direct HTTPS test to Hugging Face returns 200, but the model download still fails.\n\nHas anyone faced these issues or knows the correct fix, particularly for the HF CDN/Xet download?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/scenema-audio-gibberish-output-and-hugging-face-ssl-403-download-error", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/scenema-audio-gibberish-output-and-hugging-face-ssl-403-download-error/178622#post_1", "published_at": "2026-08-13 09:37:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-13 09:42:30.448634+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Scenema Audio", "Podman", "Hugging Face"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/scenema-audio-gibberish-output-and-hugging-face-ssl-403-download-error", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/scenema-audio-gibberish-output-and-hugging-face-ssl-403-download-error.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/scenema-audio-gibberish-output-and-hugging-face-ssl-403-download-error.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/scenema-audio-gibberish-output-and-hugging-face-ssl-403-download-error.jsonld"}}