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Hobbyist runs voice cloning experiments on decade-old PC
Original: I just wanted a local TTS tool to go along with Whisper. Somehow, I ended up experimenting with voice cloning on my almo
A user says they set out to find a local text-to-speech tool to pair with Whisper but ended up testing voice cloning on their nearly 14-year-old PC. They compiled audio.cpp with the Vulkan backend from source and tried the Audio8 TTS Preview 0.6B Q8_0 model, noting odd results. The anecdote highlights how accessible consumer AI speech tools have become on modest hardware.
Why now: Growing interest in running local, open-source speech and voice-cloning AI tools on ordinary consumer hardware.
Evidence
- I just wanted a local TTS tool to go along with Whisper. Somehow, I ended up experimenting with voice cloning on my almost 14-year-old PC... I compiled audio.cpp with the Vulkan backend from source and tested the Audio8 TTS Preview 0.6B Q8_0 model. The weird thing is that the… · sheepfreak@pixelfed.social · 1
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