Out Loud - Free , offline text-to-speech AI (out-loud.io)

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Out Loud is a free, open-source AI text-to-speech app that runs 100% offline. Nothing you read or type ever leaves your device — no cloud, no accounts, no tracking. Get 50+ natural voices across 8 languages (English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, and more) on macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a Chrome extension that reads any webpage, PDF, or email aloud with one click.

MIT licensed and free forever — audit it, fork it, improve it. A genuine alternative to subscription TTS services, with no fees, ever.

Download v2.0.0: https://www.out-loud.io/#download Star on GitHub: https://github.com/light-cloud-com/out-loud

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[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M#training-details

The model uses freely licensed audio. Nice.

But it also uses synthetic audio from closed-source models and unspecified open-source licenses. Not nice.

[-] Mensh123@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

But is there any way I can get the dataset? If not, none of this is completely open source per OSI. The model itself is even advertised as “open-weight”, not open source.