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I wanted an easily deployable way of bringing transcription to an underpowered server I have. I used Moondream's excellent parakeet-redux as a base model and adapted Highway SIMD to run it. The result is a single binary…

I wanted a portable CPU implementation of kokoro for a project I am working on for a voice interface and found the current GGML/GGUF models were sometimes slower than python torch code. I love Kokoro for it's…

I was blown away by Kokoro and what it managed to do with such little space. I became curious if it would be possible to create new voices by direct manipulation of the style tensors. After many failed attempts I…

I recently saw Kokoro TTS speech added voice blending and after a bit of playing around I decided I wanted a more comprehensive way of selecting and blending voices. I used sqlite as a solution for selecting groups of…

I am trying to keep my son off of ad riddled tablet games when he gets some electronics time. I have a short list of good couch co-op games I can "carry" him through because he is still learning and finds a lot of game…