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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

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  1. thangalin · · focus · HN ↗
    Here's a video of my Emotive Audiobook Creator, KeenLore, a locally hosted web app:

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WAeHgE94rVo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WAeHgE94rVo

    No cloud, no tokens to pay. Reads a book using a full cast of characters. Quotation attribution detection (for my novel) is at 97.2% accuracy (485&#x2F;499 quotes identified and assigned correctly). The autofill of character voice descriptions uses the prose to determine how the character sounds.

    Employs Gemma 4[1] for the prose analysis (voice fills, quotation detection) and Qwen3 TTS Voice Design[2] for creating voice samples. Runs on an 8GB NVIDIA T1000 GPU card, 96 GB RAM, and a AMD Ryzen 5 7600.

    [1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepmind.google&#x2F;models&#x2F;gemma&#x2F;gemma-4&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepmind.google&#x2F;models&#x2F;gemma&#x2F;gemma-4&#x2F;

    [2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;spaces&#x2F;Qwen&#x2F;Qwen3-TTS-Voice-Design" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;spaces&#x2F;Qwen&#x2F;Qwen3-TTS-Voice-Design

    1. talon8635 · · focus · HN ↗

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      1. idiotsecant · · focus · HN ↗
        I guess I should feel bad about wanting to listen to audiobooks of novels that don&#x27;t have audio while I drive
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