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Released September 3, spanning 294k to 2.2m parameters with 11 voices across 6 languages, claiming 244x smaller than Kokoro. The 1.51m Amy model scores SCOREQ 4.13 against Inflect Nano's 3.81 at 4.63m and KittenTTS's 3.02 at 15m, with about 2% WER through Whisper. On an ESP32 it reaches RTF 0.225, four seconds of audio per second of compute. WebAssembly build via npm install sanotts-web. GitHub
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The repo reached 9,740 stars with roughly double the next-fastest Python project's daily gain. It exposes a VAD → STT → LLM → TTS pipeline behind an OpenAI Realtime-compatible WebSocket API with every stage swappable: Parakeet TDT as default STT (Whisper, Paraformer alternativ...
KittenML released three TTS models on GitHub (432 points, 160 comments on HN — highest point total in today's data) with the smallest under 25MB, enabling full on-device inference without cloud round-trips. Targets mobile and edge where existing TTS models are too large. The v...
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Eight thousand stars in a single day. That's what happened when Warp open-sourced its Rust-based, GPU-accelerated terminal on April 28. The repo shot to 47.9K total stars, making it the highest-velocity project on GitHub this week by a wide margin. But the interesting part isn...
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