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Out Loud - Free , offline text-to-speech AI (out-loud.io)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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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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[–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

So the training data was licensed with CC0 and is made available?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    This seems to be a wrapper over Kokoro which is an Apache-licenced TTS model and library which has been out for over a year. That model lists about 10% of its approx 1000-hour training data but also says that all of its training data was CC, synthetic (by way of closed source TTs), or otherwise permissively-licensed.

    huggingface kokoro

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Interesting, does using the output of a nonfree software make the model more free?

    Odd choice but personally I dont care, we have these models everywhere, please also on Linux etc.

    Still looking for a good multi-lingual TTS on Android (english + german)

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    • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Nice, it's pretty good. Just installed it on Ubuntu.

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Needs a vibecode disclaimer

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