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Out Loud - Free , offline text-to-speech AI (out-loud.io)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/opensource@programming.dev

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Out Loud is a free, open-source AI text-to-speech app that runs 100% offline. Nothing you read or type ever leaves your device — no cloud, no accounts, no tracking. Get 50+ natural voices across 8 languages (English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, and more) on macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a Chrome extension that reads any webpage, PDF, or email aloud with one click.

MIT licensed and free forever — audit it, fork it, improve it. A genuine alternative to subscription TTS services, with no fees, ever.

Download v2.0.0: https://www.out-loud.io/#download Star on GitHub: https://github.com/light-cloud-com/out-loud

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[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This seems to be a wrapper over Kokoro which is an Apache-licenced TTS model and library which has been out for over a year. That model lists about 10% of its approx 1000-hour training data but also says that all of its training data was CC, synthetic (by way of closed source TTs), or otherwise permissively-licensed.

huggingface kokoro

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

Interesting, does using the output of a nonfree software make the model more free?

Odd choice but personally I dont care, we have these models everywhere, please also on Linux etc.

Still looking for a good multi-lingual TTS on Android (english + german)