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It worked quite well.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice cloning text-to-speech", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?"}, {"id": 783783889, "item_id": 48986493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986493", "by": "rahimnathwani", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use mlx-audio almost daily with mlx-community/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-bf16 (for voice cloning)", "excerpt": "Would be totally unsurprised if those modalities and models get integrated into this UI. Yup, the GitHub repo says: Support for dedicated audio-only and image-generation-only models is coming soon. Prince Canuma is super-responsive on X and GitHub issues, and I use mlx-audio almost daily with mlx-community/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-bf16 (for voice cloning).", "context": "", "use_case": "voice cloning", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"}, {"id": 750048224, "item_id": 46878014, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46878014", "by": "macmac_mac", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just tried qwen 3 tts and it was mind blowingly good", "excerpt": "I just tried qwen 3 tts and it was mind blowingly good, you can even provide directions for the overall tone etc. Which wasn't the case when I used commercial super expensive products like the (now closed after being bought by meta) play.ht . 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Yup, the GitHub repo says: Support for dedicated audio-only and image-generation-only models is coming soon. Prince Canuma is super-responsive on X and GitHub issues, and I use mlx-audio almost daily with mlx-community/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-bf16 (for voice cloning).", "context": "", "use_case": "voice cloning", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"}, {"id": 751499878, "item_id": 46968742, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968742", "by": "prradox", "date": "2026-02-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Chatterbox or Qwen3-TTS for voices", "excerpt": "I run several Claude Code and OpenCode sessions at once, often across 2+ devboxes and my local machine. I wanted a way to talk to my Claude Code session without having to be in the window/terminal. I wanted a way to see all my tmux sessions across machines from a single interface. So, I built agentwire-dev. AgentWire is a self-hosted web portal and CLI that sits on top of tmux. 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Does anyone see a reason to still use elevenlabs etc. ?", "context": "", "use_case": "text-to-speech", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen3-Coder-Next"}, {"id": 749227619, "item_id": 46826726, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826726", "by": "krunkosaurus", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Qwen3 TTS (with voice cloning support!)", "excerpt": "My time to shine! I just open sourced a REST API and framework that you can point any of your projects to such as OpenClaw so you can do TTS and SST using your own hardware. It's specially focused on Mac M-class chips to utilize MLX: https://github.com/Sogni-AI/sogni-voice All free and open source. Internally it uses Parakeet, Kokoro TTS, Qwen3 TTS (with voice cloning support!) Also supports creating your own API key", "context": "", "use_case": "text to speech with voice cloning", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?"}, {"id": 747706434, "item_id": 46731652, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731652", "by": "d4rkp4ttern", "date": "2026-01-23", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Curious how it compares to last week\u2019s release of Kyutai\u2019s Pocket-TTS", "excerpt": "Curious how it compares to last week\u2019s release of Kyutai\u2019s Pocket-TTS [1] which is just 100M params, and excellent in both speed and quality (English only). I use it in my voice plugin [2] for quick voice updates in Claude Code. [1] https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts [2] https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools?tab=readme-ov-file#-voice-plugin", "context": "", "use_case": "text-to-speech", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen3-TTS Family Is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation"}]}