Show HN: Chickadee – Free, local, open-source text-to-speech for web pages
By smahendrakar · 2026-09-14 · 2 points · 0 comments
https://www.usechickadee.com
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…
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