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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by Havoc on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:02AM (#45114726)
MIT license - very nice!
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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by em-bee on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @09:34AM (#45115602)
what does that mean in this context? it seems to depend on an LLM. so can i run this completely offline? if i have to sign up and pay for an LLM to make it work, then it's not really more useful than any other non-free system
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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by ComputerGuru on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:19AM (#45116122)
The application of known FOSS licenses to what is effectively a binary-only release is misleading and borderline meaningless.
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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by Havoc on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @03:32PM (#45119607)
It is an unfortunate recycling of an existing regime that no doubt offends Stallman to his very core, but I wouldn't call it meaningless.

If you're in a company and need a model which one do you think you're getting past compliance & legal - the one that says MIT or the one that says "non-commercial use only"?

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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by watsonmusic on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:56AM (#45116560)
Microsoft is cool
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