It took some time, but we finally got Kokoro TTS (v1.0) running in-browser w/ WebGPU acceleration! This enables real-time text-to-speech without the need for a server. Looking forward to your feedback!
This is brilliant. All we need now is for someone to code a frontend for it so we can input an article's URL and have this voice read it out loud... built-in local voices on MacOS are not even close to this Kokoro model
Incredible work! I have listened to several tts and to have this be free and in complete control of the customer is absolutely incredible. This will unlock new use cases
Brilliant job! Love how fast it is, I'm sure if the rapid pace of speech ML continues we'll have Speech to Speech models directly running in our browser!
Kokoro gives pretty good voices and is quite light...making it useful despite its lack of voice cloning capability. However, I haven't figured out how to run it in the context of a tts server without homebrewing the server...which maybe is easy? IDK.
Fantastic work. My dream would be to use this for a browser audiobook generator for epubs. I made a cli audiobook generator with Piper [0] that got some traction and I wanted to port it to the browser, but there were too many issues. [1]
Is there source anywhere? Seems the assets/ folder is bundled js.
In my opinion, there's a ton of opportunity for private, progressive web apps with this while WebGPU is still relatively newly implemented.
Would love to collaborate in some way if others are also interested in this
Readit News
- https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/whisper-web
- https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/whisper-webgpu
- https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/realtime-whisper-webgpu
- https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/moonshine-web
I made https://app.readaloudto.me/ as a hobby thing and now it could be enhanced with a local tts option!
https://x.com/neilzegh/status/1887498102455869775
https://github.com/kyutai-labs/hibiki
(I get the joke that for some definition of real-time this is real-time).
The reason why I use an API is because time to first byte is the most important metric in the apps I'm working on.
That aside, kudos for the great work and I'm sure one day the latency on this will be super low as well.
Sounds great on Chrome with an Nvidia 1650Ti.
Sounds great on Chrome on a Pixel 6.
Sound like being bitcrushed. Maybe a 64 vs 32 bit error? Solid results when working.
Edit: Sorry, it was a problem of my specific audio setup, it works equally well on Chromium.
Is there source anywhere? Seems the assets/ folder is bundled js. In my opinion, there's a ton of opportunity for private, progressive web apps with this while WebGPU is still relatively newly implemented.
Would love to collaborate in some way if others are also interested in this
[0] https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook/ [1] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/issues/352
But, in a more serious tone: the story that I hear about AMD GPUs is that they are, in fact, shittier because AMD themselves give fewer shits. GIGO