Chickadee – Free, local, open-source text-to-speech for web pages

Show HN: Chickadee – Free, local, open-source text-to-speech for web pages

Chickadee – Free, local, open-source text-to-speech for web pages operates in show hn launch.

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I wanted to listen to articles without a robotic voice or another subscription, so I built Chickadee: a free, open-source Chrome extension that runs a voice model locally.It runs Kokoro-82M, an 82-million-parameter speech model, directly in your browser using WebGPU. The speech is generated on your computer. No account, API key, or subscription needed.Chickadee includes:• 12 voices and adjustable playback speed• Sentence highlighting right on the original page• Offline speech after the initial model download• No account, subscription, or API keySource: https://github.com/sahilmahendrakar/chickadeeI'd love to hear what you think. Try it out here https://www.usechickadee.com

The company sits in the show hn launch segment, where it competes on its core product or service.

Its current recorded stage is Show HN launch.

Website: www.usechickadee.com