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Chickadee
Free, local, open-source text-to-speech for web pages
About Chickadee
The speech model runs in your browser. Nothing you read is ever uploaded.
In the maker’s words
I wanted to listen to articles without a robotic voice or another subscription, so I built Chickadee: a free, open-source Chrome extension that runs a voice model locally. It runs Kokoro-82M, an 82-million-parameter speech model, directly in your browser using WebGPU. The speech is generated on your computer. No account, API key, or subscription needed. Chickadee includes: • 12 voices and adjustable playback speed • Sentence highlighting right on the original page • Offline speech after the initial model download • No account, subscription, or API key Source: https://github.com/sahilmahendrakar/chickadee I'd love to hear what you think. Try it out here https://www.usechickadee.com
Where people found it
- Hacker NewsShow HN: Chickadee – Free, local, open-source text-to-speech for web pages4 points1 comments26 days ago
Saved source observations
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Hacker News
- Activity
- 4 points
- Comments
- 1
- Posts
- 1
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