Love this model. I’m GPU poor and have had FOMO that I haven’t played with local models at all. About a month ago I setup Kokoro on my GTX1650 to do TTS for an article reader. A simple WebUI lets me paste a URL or a chunk of copy pasted text. Python cleans it up and sends to Kokoro for TTS and it’s then served via RSS for Apple Podcasts. Then for my morning drive I’ll catch up on articles or blog posts I’ve gathered.

At some point I’d like to play with separate voices and see if I could build something like NotebookLM for kind of like a radio morning show of news items I’ve gathered.

Check Open Notebook:

https://github.com/lfnovo/open-notebook