pocket-tts

New version of PocketTTS is apparently censored: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts/issues/390

Too bad it's not open, unlike the previous version. However, I found Qwen ASR and QwenTTS to be quite good, and not too large. Also https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts was also great (but only a few languages)

wow now that's a really tiny tts model. is there a comparison to https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts ?

kokoro is decent but pocket-tts is much better especially when you rip a good voice. https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts the onnx version of pocket-tts does perform better. https://huggingface.co/KevinAHM/pocket-tts-onnx

It's amazing how good open-weight STT and TTS have gotten, so there's no need to pay for Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, Eleven-Labs etc. Sharing my setup in case it may be useful for others; it's especially useful when working with CLI agents like Code Code or Codex-CLI: STT: Hex [1] (open-source), with Parakeet V3 - stunningly fast, near-instant transcription. The slight accuracy drop relative to bigger models is immaterial when you're talking to an AI. I always ask it to restate back to me what it understood, and it gives back a nicely structured version -- this helps confirm understanding as well as likely helps the CLI agent stay on track. It is a MacOS native app and leverages the CoreML/Neural Engine to get extremely fast transcription (I used to recommend a similar app Handy but it has frequent stuttering issues, and Hex is actually eve

Related: I used the amazing 100M-parameter Pocket-TTS [1] model to make a stop-hook based voice plugin [2] that lets Claude Code give a short voice update whenever it stops. The hook quietly inserts nudges to Claude Code to end its response with a short speakable summary, and in case it forgets, it uses a headless agent to create the summary. It was trickier than I expected, to get it working well: FFMpeg pipe streaming for low-latency playback, a three-hook injection strategy because the agent forgets instructions mid-turn, mkdir-based locks to queue concurrent voice updates from multiple sessions, and /tmp sentinel files to manage async playback state and prevent infinite loops. [1] Pocket-TTS: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts [2] Claude-code voice plugin: https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...

Watching the OpenClaw/Molbot craze has been entertaining. I wouldn't use it - too much code, changing too quickly, with too little regard for security - but it has inspired me. I often have ideas while cleaning around, cooking, etc. Claude Code (with Opus 4.5) is very capable. I've long wanted to get Claude Code working hands-free. So I took an afternoon and rolled my own STT-TTS voice stack for Claude Code. The voice stack runs locally on my M4 Pro and is extremely fast. For Speech to Text, Parakeet v3 TDT: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 For Text to Speech, Pocket TTS: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts Custom MCP to hook this into Claude Code, with a little bit of hacking around to get my AirPods' stem click to be captured. I'm having Claude narrate its thought process and everything it's doing in short, frequ

This is not strictly speech-to-speech, but I quite like it when working with Claude Code or other CLI Agents: STT: Handy [1] (open-source), with Parakeet V3 - stunningly fast, near-instant transcription. The slight accuracy drop relative to bigger models is immaterial when you're talking to an AI. I always ask it to restate back to me what it understood, and it gives back a nicely structured version -- this helps confirm understanding as well as likely helps the CLI agent stay on track. TTS: Pocket-TTS [2], just 100M params, and amazing speech quality (English only). I made a voice plugin [3] based on this, for Claude Code so it can speak out short updates whenever CC stops. It uses a non-blocking stop hook that calls a headless agent to create the 1/2-sentence summary. Turns out to be surprisingly useful. It's also fun as you can customi

Curious how it compares to last week’s release of Kyutai’s Pocket-TTS [1] which is just 100M params, and excellent in both speed and quality (English only). I use it in my voice plugin [2] for quick voice updates in Claude Code. [1] https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts [2] https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools?tab=readme-o...

Eep. So, on my M1 mac, did `uvx pocket-tts serve`. Plugged in > It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only (Beginning of Tale of Two Cities) but the problem is Javert skips over parts of sentences! Eg, it starts: > "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the ag