bitslizer

What front end/agent manager are you using? Hermes? Claude code? This is pretty much my next project

The default backend is not the fastest, if latency and time to first audio is the priority, you want to try the faster-qwen3-tts If you want a speech to speech loop quick chat bot to play with to get a sense what qwen3 TTS is capable of with minimum fuss, Google and install handcrafted persona engine. With good instruct prompt (generated by llm) the emotional range and expressiveness on voice design model is even better than what you will get from persona engine.

I had claude spin up an Omni for me, the quality is not as good with the voice design, frequently generated noise rather than speech and I can't control/direct the emotional context and delivery style like I could with qwen3 tts local or Gemini 2.5 tts on the cloud. But it is very fast and less vram than qwen.

How does Omni compared to qwen3 tts? The qwen3 voice instruct+voice design get it to almost Gemini 2.5 tts level for expressive and context understanding.

Yeah, basically I don't really know what's "possible" at the 300b level that would seem like a miracle compare to a 26b model.

How does it compare to Gemma 4 26b a4b?

Gemini 2.5 tts works amazing with tags but it's not local... The new Gemini 3 tts seems a step backward but they may still tweak it like they did with 2.5

If it is something simple yeah, but I will only have about 1 week to play around with it although no token budget

Nice! Is persona engine feeding those [emotion emoji] tags straight to qwen3? Are you using faster-qwen3-tts to get that speed?

Is that with CPU/ram offloading? Gemini is saying even iq4 xs won't fit?

I guess your solar inverter form the mini grid/phase along with the battery, how do you get the natural gas generator to sync phase for charging the battery?