Giving PAI a Voice: Local Text-to-Speech with Chatterbox
There’s something magical about an AI that can actually speak to you. Not through a chat interface, not through notifications on your phone, but through the speakers in your home, with a voice that has personality. Today I’m excited to share how I gave PAI (my Personal AI Infrastructure) the ability to speak - using local, GPU-accelerated text-to-speech that runs entirely on my own hardware, with 28 unique voice personas to choose from. ...