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Seems to be useless, the state of art for all categories is local on-device, voice model vendors are just rent seekers for those who know no better.
by bewareofscams 2mo ago
Seems to be useless, the state of art for all categories is local on-device, voice model vendors are just rent seekers for those who know no better.
- sparkling 2mo agoJust canceled my WisprFlow subscription a few days ago to switch to a open source, free, local alternative. In my case handy.computer with the Cohere model.
- alabhyajindal 2mo agoYou mean handy.computer?
- sparkling 2mo agoYup, my bad, fixed.
- straw_hat_build 2mo ago[dead]
- echelon 2mo agoYou're not the customer. This is for people building products that support thousands of users. Linux on desktop is great for you, but this is a tool for people delivering solutions.
- bewareofscams 2mo ago1) what if I told you I can leverage local models and serve thousands of users? 2) you know nothing about me 3) of course I am not! I do know better
- owebmaster 2mo ago> You're not the customer. This is for people building products that support thousands of users. That's their dream. Your dream. The AI dream. Many would say it's AI psychosis.
- robbomacrae 2mo agoOpen weight models are getting really good. Specko appears to be focussing on paid services which has its role to play but I have a benchmark in development for Open Weight models here if that is helpful: https://orcabot.com/benchmarks/open-weight-tts https://orcabot.com/benchmarks/open-weight-tts. Still shoring up the details but you can try a sample of all the options and see how they compare in terms of model size, peak RSS, real time factor etc.