Observed arrival · 2026-11-14
Flock Speech puts two small voices on your CPU
An open-source Python text-to-speech library with two 44.2 MB English voices that run offline on an ordinary CPU.
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- Python developers needing offline English speech
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- The page reports 11.4 million parameters per voice and 215 MB of memory while a voice speaks.
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The page pairs each voice with short sample lines and audio described as generated ahead of time on a laptop CPU. Goldfinch's sound tags are presented as learned symbols, with the site noting that repeated takes can differ; it also rates throat-clearing and lip-smacking as less reliable than laughs or breaths.
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