THE VIDEO SHELF · offline text-to-speech
Larynx Demo
A demonstration of Larynx, an offline open source neural text-to-speech system supporting nine languages. The video itself is narrated with a Larynx-generated voice.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as proof that offline TTS can sound natural, relevant to private voice assistant alternatives.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- synesthesiam
- Topic
- offline text-to-speech
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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It's unfortunate that another comment that links to Rhasspy has been downvoted (I assume because it lacked any other context) so I wanted to mention the project with some additional context: [LINK] While I've not used the entire Rhasspy project myself (but trying it out …
follower on Hacker News · 2021-12
In Ask HN: Private Alternatives to Alexa?yeah, [VIDEO] at the end says southern female english [LINK] but the sample is NOT like the video, maybe the samples are old. the video is a great example
2Gkashmiri on Hacker News · 2021-12
In Ask HN: Private Alternatives to Alexa?Found this project the other day that is probably good enough quality for most uses i.e. sounds very natural and not like a robot from the 1980s and doesn't require a cloud service and can run on modest hardware [LINK] Demo: [VIDEO]
sublinear on Hacker News · 2023-02
In Prime Voice AI: The most realistic and versatile AI speech software
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.