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		sebastiennight 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kokoro WebGPU: Real-time text-to-speech 100% local... My understanding is that MacWhisper is a front-end for Whisper.cpp so... it does Speech-to-text? (transcribing what you dictate) Here I'm talking about the model shared in this thread, which is text-to-speech (reading out loud content from the web)

satvikpendem 5 months ago [–]

Yes, I am saying they might include features for TTS in addition to their current STT feature set. Seems like many of these sorts of apps are looking to add both to be more full fledged.

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