alt Hacker NewsSeems to be useless, the state of art for all categories is local on-device, voice model vendors are just rent seekers for those who know no better.
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echelon • today at 5:39 PM
You're not the customer. This is for people building products that support thousands of users.
Linux on desktop is great for you, but this is a tool for people delivering solutions.
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sparkling • today at 5:09 PM
Just canceled my WisprFlow subscription a few days ago to switch to a open source, free, local alternative. In my case handy.computer with the Cohere model.
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Open weight models are getting really good. Specko appears to be focussing on paid services which has its role to play but I have a benchmark in development for Open Weight models here if that is helpful: https://orcabot.com/benchmarks/open-weight-tts.
Still shoring up the details but you can try a sample of all the options and see how they compare in terms of model size, peak RSS, real time factor etc.