{"channel":"cities","content":"Huggingface had approximately one open-source model that supported Lithuanian TTS.\r\n\r\nFortunately, one model is all that is needed.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nIt is called \"OuteTTS\" (<resource> Huggingface https://huggingface.co/OuteAI/Llama-OuteTTS-1.0-1B ; website https://outeai.com ).\r\n\r\nAnd, after a bit of handholding (<red> and a sample audio file from OpenAI.fm to generate a \"speaker profile\"), it works.  All the letters are pronounced.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nIt is a local model.  Which means that it will take a few hours to generate (<xantham> checks notes) 723 words/phrases to read. (<orange> well, actually, 2169 if I keep doing three different voices for it)","created_at":"2025-05-30T03:23:16.802999","id":566,"llm_annotations":{},"parent_id":564,"processed_content":"<p>Huggingface had approximately one open-source model that supported Lithuanian TTS.\r</p>\n<p>Fortunately, one model is all that is needed.\r</p>\n<hr class=\"section-break\" />\n<p>It is called \"OuteTTS\" <span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> Huggingface <a href=\"https://huggingface.co/OuteAI/Llama-OuteTTS-1.0-1B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://huggingface.co/OuteAI/Llama-OuteTTS-1.0-1B</a> ; website <a href=\"https://outeai.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://outeai.com</a> </span></span>.\r</p>\n<p>And, after a bit of handholding <span class=\"colorblock color-red\"><span class=\"sigil\">\ud83d\udca1</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> and a sample audio file from OpenAI.fm to generate a \"speaker profile\"</span></span>, it works.  All the letters are pronounced.\r</p>\n<hr class=\"section-break\" />\n<p>It is a local model.  Which means that it will take a few hours to generate <span class=\"colorblock color-xantham\"><span class=\"sigil\">\ud83d\udd25</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> checks notes</span></span> 723 words/phrases to read. <span class=\"colorblock color-orange\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2694\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> well, actually, 2169 if I keep doing three different voices for it</span></span></p>","quotes":[],"subject":"faulkton (part 2)"}
