[whimsicalism]

Sesame is free and pretty good and you can run it yourself.

[kuprel]

They released a crippled model: https://github.com/SesameAILabs/csm/issues/63

[hnhn34]

The good news is Orpheus-3B just made Sesame essentially obsolete.

[Foreignborn]

thanks for this, it sounds pretty good.

link for anyone else: https://canopylabs.ai/model-releases

[sandspar]

These voices are all annoying, though. The thing about Sesame's Miles is that he's cool.

[satvikpendem]

You can clone any voice you want with Orpheus.

[whimsicalism]

admittedly i only tested it for a few queries, but it worked fine for me except for lack of consistency in voice