Which offline voices should Gotchi Local ship next?
Today Gotchi Local can download Whisper.cpp for transcription and a Piper voice for speech, both from Hugging Face, as offline fallbacks for when it is not using the FrontierOS backend.
Kokoro and Pocket TTS look like strong candidates for more natural offline voices on a laptop host. Which would you want, and in which languages?
Referenced repos
Indexed from Hugging Face and linked upstream, not hosted here.
GGML-format conversions of the OpenAI Whisper checkpoints, from tiny to large, for the whisper.cpp C/C++ inference engine.
The official collection of ONNX voice models for the Piper offline TTS engine, covering many languages at several size and quality levels.
An 82M-parameter text-to-speech model built on StyleTTS 2 components, shipped with a set of preset voices across several languages.
A 100M-parameter CPU-oriented TTS model from Kyutai with voice cloning from a reference clip and support for English plus five other European languages, designed to run faster than real time using two CPU cores.