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Re:WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system buil... by zerop on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:25PM (#39037839)
Can this be run on Mac M1?
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Re:WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system buil... by abathur on Thursday January 18, 2024 @12:07AM (#39038122)
Idk if it would out of the box, but it should be possible. I know that Whisper (and some variants) run on both x86 and silicon macs.
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Re:WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system buil... by jpcl on Thursday January 18, 2024 @06:16AM (#39040443)
It should run with PyTorch but the performance might not be great. As a long-time Mac user myself I would love if someone would send a PR to port it to MLX :)
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