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▲ drum55 6 hours ago

Closed model unfortunately, continues the theme of TTS / STT being really not great for local deployments.

▲dr_hooo 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Too bad it's not open, unlike the previous version.

However, I found Qwen ASR and QwenTTS to be quite good, and not too large. Also https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts was also great (but only a few languages)

▲sorenjan 5 hours ago | parent [-]

New version of PocketTTS is apparently censored: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts/issues/390

▲MiliasGeiger 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> FYI, this is just a property of our training data, this is not intentional.

FWIW.

▲dr_hooo 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh, wow, I wasn't aware. Weird choice...

▲gavinray 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Best sounding local TTS engine I've heard by far is Kokoro

It's small enough to be run on modern phones realtime, I use it for listening to PDF's/EPUB as Audiobooks

https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M

▲modinfo 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Here is TTS under 4M: https://huggingface.co/owensong/Inflect-Nano-v2

▲IsaacZerh 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Funny because Gradium just released a local TTS that runs on many devices

https://x.com/GradiumAI/status/2112563128487514512?s=20

▲senjin 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Thank you for sharing this, I was just looking for something like this for a project. Incredible what they can do with 31M params

▲guskel 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nice. Looks like Kokoro finally has some competition.

▲aliljet 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What options would you run locally at this stage? I'm finding a ton of success with local models in this space ..

▲deepsquirrelnet 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You could try ours. They're very small and english only right now (training Spanish now). But they're a CPU optimized architecture and even the largest size will work on a single thread with realtime streaming.

https://huggingface.co/collections/futo-org/asr4all

You can run them client-side using wasm-simd. I setup a space for the small sized model. There's a big step up in accuracy going to the medium size though:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/futo-org/asr4all-client-side

▲Bolwin 5 hours ago | parent [-]

That's fascinating. Are these for your keyboard?

You may have gone too fast honestly. Something like parakeet runs fast enough and seems to have much lower wer

▲deepsquirrelnet 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep exactly! Streaming models have to run faster, because they're more compute heavy. Some compute from every batch is wasted when the next set of frames come in. Streaming models also have higher WER than fully offline models.

Our models are more comparable to nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming in that regard and I think the medium/large sizes do perform quite favorably. For offline models, I don't think it's worthwhile for us to try and compete with parakeet v2/3. Those are already really good, and we're in the process of adding those to FUTO Voice.

These models are filling some gaps we see for the kinds of things we tend to work on. But broadly they can slot into a lot of places where there isn't accelerated compute (Raspberry pi 4, laptops, local client side transcription, etc).

▲xnx 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Parakeet. For my use it seems about equal to Whisper in WER, but is >10x faster.

▲mewse-hn 5 hours ago | parent [-]

2nding parakeet, had great results with a japanese-tuned variant, beat the pants off whisper-kotoba

▲verdverm 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm looking for a local model that can do diarization, have any suggestions for this?

I have https://huggingface.co/OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize open in a tab to try out

A leader board on HF: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard

▲deepsquirrelnet 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Our "plus" models have speaker segmentation and speaker verification (embedding) that you can use for speech to text and diarization from one model. There's an example script in the model repo that shows how to do it.

https://huggingface.co/collections/futo-org/asr4all

If you're looking for a single stage "end-to-end" model just for diarization only, Nvidia released one recently: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Diarization

▲7777777phil 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have been using different Parakeet models for STT over the past months and been pretty impressed with the local performance.

▲arendtio 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My favorite so far is https://speaches.ai

Not because of the models, but because it comes in a nice (easy-to-set-up) package, and the latency was lower than I expected with such a setup.

▲causal 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Available via Mistral’s EU-hosted API or self-deployment

What does this mean then?

▲verdverm 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You have to call sales to get access for on-prem deployment and the models

If it were open weights, it would be on Huggingface and they would have put a link in the post

▲c0rruptbytes 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Omnivoice is pretty good

▲j-pb 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Breeze is pretty good imho.

▲Mashimo 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Dang, this could have been fun for home assistent.