Show HN: Orate – On-device neural text-to-speech queue for Mac(orate.to)
11 pointsby bherms9 hours ago4 comments
  • greggh7 hours ago
    It would be nice to have a sample of the audio quality and voice(s) it uses on the website so we know what it will sound like.

    -- Edit:

    I installed it, ran it and got the first time wizard, granted permissions and hit continue and it just exits without any other message or screen. It isn't in the menu bar. I run it again and get the same. It says the permissions are granted already the second time though.

    I like the interface on the website a lot, so I would love to use this. Thoughts?

    • armsaw6 hours ago
      I experience the same. M5 Pro MBP, 64gb RAM.

      If I click "skip" on the wizard, it gets 1 screen further then crashes with no feedback on next interaction.

      • bherms4 hours ago
        On it! Pushed out a fix for something else earlier and didn’t go through a clean install to test. Should have a fix shortly. Just getting off a plane though. Will follow up when I have it nailed down.
    • bherms6 hours ago
      Can you paste your system specs here for me? It's running for me just fine and on a few other laptops here, but I am curious if there's something on your laptop that might be giving issues... It does require Mac w/ Apple M1+. Happy to debug and get it working for you!
      • greggh5 hours ago
        Mac mini m4 16gb, latest updates.
        • bherms4 hours ago
          On it! I’ll ping you when I have a culprit
    • bherms6 hours ago
      Oh also, on the website, the first preview in the hero does give a real synthesized example I pulled using the app! Its not clear that the other screenshots are not interactive
  • womble27 hours ago
    Seems great, a keyboard shortcut for reading any text is nice and frictionless. I'd love to see a Linux version.
  • monkellipse7 hours ago
    Cool, I’ll give it a try! OCR for printed stuff, device sync and character voices (for fiction) would be killer.
    • bherms6 hours ago
      The Chatterbox HD plugin actually does AI voice cloning, but I didn't expose it yet. That's a great idea to see if it can do different voices and I could clone some popular ones. Device sync is coming soon!
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