text-to-speech

A self-hosted Docker Compose stack for running local AI services including Ollama, LiteLLM, Whisper, Kokoro, embeddings, and an MCP Gateway.

Open-source voice AI from Microsoft with both long-form text-to-speech and speech recognition models. The repo highlights 90-minute multi-speaker TTS, 60-minute single-pass ASR, multilingual support, hotwording, and links to docs, Hugging Face, playground, finetuning, and papers.

Warblize is an AI audiobook maker that turns EPUB, PDF, TXT, and DOCX files into narrated audiobooks. The page highlights chapter detection, automatic formatting cleanup, 47 languages, voice styles, and export-ready MP3s for publishing platforms.

CrankGPT is a fully offline voice assistant built on a hand-crank-powered Raspberry Pi setup. The page explains the hardware stack, local speech recognition, on-device LLMs, text-to-speech, power smoothing, and latency measurements for running the system without cloud dependency.

A macOS command-line tool for on-device AI and voice tasks, including speak, listen, transcribe, chat, and an OpenAI-compatible local server.

An open-source conversational language tutor for iOS with voice I/O, AI-powered feedback, and support for bringing your own API keys.

A write-up of a custom French-learning system built around spaced repetition, grammar tracking, and a voice practice app. It explains the problem, the workflow, and the model/API stack used to keep costs low.