Run Speech-to-speech Models

On Mac or remote GPU!

This week, it’s a video on open source versions of GPT-4o!

🛠️ How the Hugging Face implementation by Andrés Marafioti works - it's a 4-piece model:

- Voice Activity Detection: Identifies when speech starts/stops

- Speech-to-Text: Converts audio to text (e.g., Whisper models)

- Text-to-Text: Processes and generates responses (e.g., LLMs like Llama 3, Phi)

- Text-to-Speech: Converts text back to audio (e.g., Melo, Parler)

💻 Implementation Options:

Local: Run on Mac M1/M2/M3

Cloud: Use services like RunPod or Vast.ai

It's workable on a Mac with 8 GB RAM and decent if you have more than that. On GPU, you can get high quality conversations.

Cheers, Ronan

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