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New comment by devnen in "Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model"

devnen — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:09:57 +0000

It didn't take too long. I already have two similar projects for Dia and Chatterbox tts models so I just needed to convert a few files.

New comment by devnen in "Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model"

devnen — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 10:17:16 +0000

That's a great point about the dependencies.

To make the setup easier and add a few features people are asking for here (like GPU support and long text handling), I built a self-hosted server for this model: https://github.com/devnen/Kitten-TTS-Server

The goal was a setup that "just works" using a standard Python virtual environment to avoid dependency conflicts.

The setup is just the standard git clone, pip install in a venv, and python server.py.

Show HN: Chatterbox-TTS-Server – Easy web UI for the new open-source TTS model

devnen — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:02:29 +0000

Built this wrapper to make Chatterbox TTS more accessible. Handles long text chunking automatically, includes voice cloning through web interface, and provides both web UI and API endpoints. Makes the promising new TTS model much easier to use for practical applications.

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New comment by devnen in "Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue"

devnen — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:41:19 +0000

This is really impressive work and the dialogue quality is fantastic.

For anyone wanting a quick way to spin this up locally with a web UI and API access, I put together a FastAPI server wrapper around the model: https://github.com/devnen/Dia-TTS-Server

The setup is just a standard pip install -r requirements.txt (works on Linux/Windows). It pulls the model from HF automatically – defaulting to the faster BF16 safetensors (ttj/dia-1.6b-safetensors), but that's configurable in the .env. You get an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint (/v1/audio/speech) for easy integration, plus a custom one (/tts) to control all the Dia parameters. The web UI gives you a simple way to type text, adjust sliders, and test voice cloning. It'll use your CUDA GPU if you have one configured, otherwise, it runs on the CPU.

Might be a useful starting point or testing tool for someone. Feedback is welcome!