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Calibre can now read ebooks aloud without sounding like a robot - OMG! Ubuntu
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gloomily8633 lemmy.today irregular5236@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-10-09
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Link: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/calibre-read-aloud-kokoro-voices
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Séimhe (sé / é) lemmy.world Seimhe@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-29
#2 · Quote Reply

I don’t know if it’s a mistake, but the various voices all sound identical.

FTA:
https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/blob/main/SAMPLES.md
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mindbleach sh.itjust.works mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-27
#3 · Quote Reply

Which surely means there's a neural network involved.

A technology we can trust everyone to be normal about.
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ILikeBoobies lemmy.ca ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-08-14
#4 · Quote Reply
mindbleach wrote:
Which surely means there's a neural network involved. A technology we can trust everyone to be normal about.

They had natural sounding TTS a decade ago.
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mindbleach sh.itjust.works mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-27
#5 · Quote Reply
ILikeBoobies wrote:
They had natural sounding TTS a decade ago.

Ehhh.
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gloomily8633 Moderator irregular5236@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-10-09
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Séimhe (sé / é) wrote:
I don’t know if it’s a mistake, but the various voices all sound identical. FTA: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/blob/main/SAMPLES.md

Possible as they only mentioned that new voices sound ‘much more natural’. Nothing about each sounds are unique or something.

Maybe just 1 voice available by default.
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