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

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 key Source: https://github.com/sahilmahendrakar/chickadee I'd love to hear what you think. Try it out here https://www.usechickadee.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697168 Points: 2 # Comments: 0