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I built TTSLab — a free, open-source tool for running text-to-speech and speech-to-text models directly in the browser using WebGPU and WASM.

No API keys, no backend, no data leaves your machine.

When you open the site, you'll hear it immediately — the landing page auto-generates speech from three different sentences right in your browser, no setup required.

You can then try any model yourself: type text, hit generate, hear it instantly. Models download once and get cached locally.

The most experimental feature: a fully in-browser Voice Agent. It chains speech-to-text → LLM → text-to-speech, all running locally on your GPU via WebGPU. You can have a spoken conversation with an AI without a single network request.

Currently supported models: - TTS: Kokoro 82M, SpeechT5, Piper (VITS) - STT: Whisper Tiny, Whisper Base

Other features: - Side-by-side model comparison - Speed benchmarking on your hardware - Streaming generation for supported models

Source: https://github.com/MbBrainz/ttslab (MIT)

Feedback I'd especially like: 1. How does performance feel on your hardware? 2. What models should I add next? 3. Did the Voice Agent work for you? That's the most experimental part.

Built on top of ONNX Runtime Web (https://onnxruntime.ai) and Transformers.js — huge thanks to those communities for making in-browser ML inference possible.

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Hi HN, I published a small open-source wrapper for Kiro CLI that prevents it from accessing your project's sensitive files (secrets, credentials, properties) at the OS level. Feel free to test it, share feedback, or contribute!

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After years of building for companies, I finally built something for myself.

Aura Tracker: Habits & Goals is now live on the iOS App Store.

It's an opinionated productivity system that connects Identity → Goals → Habits → Tasks → Deep Work → Insights → Reflection, all in one smooth coherent flow. I built it because most productivity apps I used felt like productivity tools. Also, I was highly influenced by the multitude of books I read on the topic and wanted to build something for myself where I can put all my learnings into use.

PS: This was kinda on my TODO list for like almost a decade. I quit my job last year to go full solo founder mode. As long as I was employed, I used to keep watching others posting Show HN and kept wondering when my time would come. Now that it has, it feels so good. Just the same kind of joy I felt, when I wrote my first "Hello World" program on Turbo C editor as a kid (long ago).

Not sure how this product would do, but the feeling that I built something that's gonna stay forever on the internet (and hopefully change the lives of whoever uses it for the better) is a feeling that no amount of corporate bonus or RSU's can provide !!

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Hi HN,

When OpenAI started phasing out GPT-4o from the main ChatGPT interface, I noticed a surprising amount of backlash — not about benchmarks or features, but about tone.

A lot of people (myself included) felt that 4o had a certain conversational warmth that later models don’t quite replicate in the same way. That difference was subtle, but noticeable.

So I built a small side project for myself: https://www.ilove4o.com/

It’s a minimal interface that connects directly to GPT-4o via the OpenAI API. No extra layers, no personality hacks — just a focused 4o-only chat experience.

I’m sharing it here because: - There seems to be real user preference around model “personality.” - I’m curious whether others noticed the same behavioral shift. - It raises an interesting question: how much of perceived “friendliness” comes from system prompts, UI, or subtle model tuning?

If you try it, I’d genuinely love feedback — especially from people who’ve spent significant time with multiple model versions.

Happy to answer technical or architectural questions.

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