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SoundScript: How I Built a Local + Cloud TTS Desktop App with PySide6, Kokoro, and Qwen

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I've been using cloud text-to-speech for voiceover work for a while, and two things kept bothering me. First, every regeneration costs money — even when I'm only fixing one word in a 500-word script. Second, for NDA client work, sending unpublished scripts to a third-party API isn't an option at al…

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  1. 2026-09-30 12:49 · DEV Community — AI
    SoundScript: How I Built a Local + Cloud TTS Desktop App with PySide6, Kokoro, and Qwen

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