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positive HN was broadly enthusiastic, especially about getting natural-sounding local TTS without needing a high-end Nvidia GPU. The main caveats were Kokoro’s weakness on very short utterances or single words, limited language coverage, and comparisons to newer or more flexible alternatives like Pocket TTS and Qwen3-TTS. — latest discussion,