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TTSLab

A voice AI agent and TTS lab running in the browser via WebGPU

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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 BaseOther features: - Side-by-side model comparison - Speed benchmarking on your hardware - Streaming generation for supported modelsSource: 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.

HN · launched Feb 23, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views

Niche: speech and text conversion software · 100 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Content generation
  • Prosumer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes It wraps open-source ONNX/WebGPU inference libraries (like Transformers.js or ONNX Runtime Web) into a web front-end to run client-side models.

Discussion

3 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Silero VAD, Whisper (STT), Kokoro/SpeechT5 (TTS)

Concerns raised: Latency not yet optimized, Model download time is slow

Competitors

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Attention rank: #400 of 431 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 108 days after the earliest competitor.

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