Kokoro
Lightweight open-source TTS with great quality-to-size
Episodes
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#6161: Turning Words Into Sound: G2P, IPA, and the Hebrew Vowel ProblemText-to-phonetics tools exist, but the neural ones guess wrong on exactly the words you care about — names, brands, and Hebrew. -
#1809: The TTS Developer's Dilemma: Size vs. SpeedStop guessing. We break down the critical trade-offs between model size, latency, and sample rate for production-ready voice apps. -
#1808: The Architecture That Made AI Voices Run on a Raspberry PiHow a model the size of a tweet outperforms billion-dollar giants in the race for perfect AI speech. -
#196: Why Your Irish Accent Sounds AmericanHerman and Corn dive into the mechanics of neural text-to-speech, exploring how AI masters human prosody and the "average voice" accent problem.