just stumbled onto a way to run text-to-speech locally using qvac and its actually pretty wild. i was checking out how the dev of quizrope handled adding voice features to his tutoring app w/o relying on cloud apis. instead of sending data everywhere, he set up the process to run directly on his
own hardware . it makes the whole thing feel muchh more
private since nothing leaves the local machine.
it's basically a dream for anyone worried about data privacy . has anyone tried setting this up on a consumer gpu yet? im curious if the latency is noticeable compared to standard cloud services
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-run-private-text-to-speech-on-your-own-hardware-using-qvac/