Out Loud - Free , offline text-to-speech AI

2 days ago by juliakafarska to c/opensource

Free, open-source, 100% offline AI text-to-speech. 50+ natural voices. macOS, Windows, Linux + Chrome. MIT licensed — your data stays on your device.

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

frongt 14 points 2 days ago

https://huggingface.co/...

The model uses freely licensed audio. Nice.

But it also uses synthetic audio from closed-source models and unspecified open-source licenses. Not nice.

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damnthefilibuster 5 points 2 days ago

Oh it’s just using kokoro? Lol

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Mensh123 4 points 2 days ago

But is there any way I can get the dataset? If not, none of this is completely open source per OSI. The model itself is even advertised as “open-weight”, not open source.

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RIotingPacifist 1 point 2 days ago

I don't do much TTS but is this better than the non-AI equivalent?

Maybe my ears are bad because I've listen to too much human made loud music, but it sounds more artificial than the default say command on OSX.

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eager_eagle 2 points 2 days ago

those samples sounded better than these ones from 2023 to me, but can we even know that apple is or isn't using AI for new versions of say?

https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/2w/gw/r3/4n/

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