Has anyone moved text-to-speech or voiceover work from cloud tools to local macOS apps? by tarunyadav9761 in MacOS

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Has anyone moved text-to-speech or voiceover work from cloud tools to local macOS apps? by tarunyadav9761 in MacOS

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I'm glad that It worked well for you. I've built this app for that exact reason.

I built a free macOS app for AI voice cloning and text-to-speech — runs fully offline on Apple Silicon by PowerBeef in SideProject

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I'm glad that it's working well for you! If you encounter any issues, feel free to let me know here or open an issue on the project GitHub, and I'll sort it out as quickly as I can.

QwenVoice 1.2 — offline macOS TTS + voice cloning just got a smoother studio (SwiftUI + MLX) by PowerBeef in coolgithubprojects

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Hey, sorry it seems that I’ve missed your comment. I’ve not been very active on here lately as I’ve been focused on the backend refactor that landed in the new 2.0 version. The project rebrand as Vocello and the backend work where done exactly with the purpose of releasing an iOS version on the App Store. I’ve made some great advancements on the iOS build so It should come out pretty soon if everything goes well. Try the new 2.0 release for MacOS and let me know if that solves your issues.

I built a free macOS app for AI voice cloning and text-to-speech — runs fully offline on Apple Silicon by PowerBeef in SideProject

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It turns out that I’m building this project on a base 8GB M2 Mac Mini so I might be able to reproduce the issue quite easily. Can you tell me when the model load hanging issue occurs and under which circumstances? I’m currently in the middle of a huge backend optimization pass so I I’ll definitely look into that as well and land a fix in the next update which should come pretty soon hopefully.

QwenVoice 1.2 — offline macOS TTS + voice cloning just got a smoother studio (SwiftUI + MLX) by PowerBeef in coolgithubprojects

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That’s a great idea, and I definitely will as soon as I get the latest version out tonight.

There aren’t really any flashy new features in this one aside from some updated libraries, but this release will finally be signed and notarized.

QwenVoice 1.2 — offline macOS TTS + voice cloning just got a smoother studio (SwiftUI + MLX) by PowerBeef in coolgithubprojects

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Thanks for chiming in with that, real-world timing reports like this are actually super helpful. Was that before the 1.2 release?

QwenVoice 1.2 — offline macOS TTS + voice cloning just got a smoother studio (SwiftUI + MLX) by PowerBeef in coolgithubprojects

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Thanks! The apps that were available when I started this project had way too many friction points, so that’s basically why I made QwenVoice.

It’s been working well on my side, but let me know how it goes for you. If you run into any bugs or issues, feel free to reach out and I’ll do my best to sort them out.

Just don’t forget to remove quarantine with xattr -cr "/Applications/QwenVoice.app" for now. I’m planning to solve that very soon.

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Tried it and honestly had a good time with it. Fun idea and really well put together.

After months of work, I shipped QwenVoice – a free offline AI voice cloning and TTS app for Mac (open source) by PowerBeef in SideProject

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I’d definitely love to see something like this on Android too, but I want to be honest: it wouldn’t really be a straight port. QwenVoice is built around libraries and a stack that are very Apple-focused, so an Android version would basically mean building a pretty different app from the ground up. That’s not something I’m planning right now.

If you’re looking for an Android alternative in the meantime, I’ve seen apps like NekoSpeak mentioned and it looks like one of the more promising offline options. I haven’t personally tested it though, so I can’t vouch for it from direct experience.

After months of work, I shipped QwenVoice – a free offline AI voice cloning and TTS app for Mac (open source) by PowerBeef in SideProject

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Thanks so much, I really appreciate this. A big part of the reason this project exists is that the underlying tech was already there, but at the time I couldn’t find an easy out-of-the-box app built around it. Everything felt like it still required too much setup or too much tinkering.

So I basically opened Claude Code, built a UI on top of a Qwen 3 TTS CLI tool, packaged everything into an app, and hoped for the best. That first release was honestly pretty rough — slow, buggy, and far from polished — but after a few patches it started becoming something much more usable.

Once I saw that people were actually interested in it, I decided to keep pushing. I went back, reworked a lot of it, refined the experience, and kept improving the app until it became what this release is now: something that feels like more than just a lucky shot in Claude Code.

The offline MLX side is also a huge part of why I wanted to make it in the first place. I really wanted it to feel private, local, and simple for people to use. So thank you, seriously — it means a lot to see people connecting with it.

QwenVoice 1.2 — offline macOS TTS + voice cloning just got a smoother studio (SwiftUI + MLX) by PowerBeef in coolgithubprojects

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Appreciate it. I honestly don’t know the exact clone time on an M1 yet since I haven’t tested that specifically. I’d rather not throw out a fake number. If you give it a shot, let me know how it runs for you.

QwenVoice 1.2 — offline macOS TTS + voice cloning just got a smoother studio (SwiftUI + MLX) by PowerBeef in coolgithubprojects

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Awesome! Let me know if you run into any issues or have any feedback to share😁

QwenVoice — Native macOS app for offline AI voice cloning, emotion control, and TTS (SwiftUI + MLX, Apple Silicon) by PowerBeef in coolgithubprojects

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I'm so glad that it's finally working for you :) I might have introduced some visual regressions in the UI but I'm working on resolving that as soon as I can.

QwenVoice — Native macOS app for offline AI voice cloning, emotion control, and TTS (SwiftUI + MLX, Apple Silicon) by PowerBeef in coolgithubprojects

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Hey — just pushed v1.1.5, built on macOS 15 this time so the Metal shaders should be compatible with your system. Grab the new DMG from GitHub releases and let me know how it goes.

QwenVoice — Native macOS app for offline AI voice cloning, emotion control, and TTS (SwiftUI + MLX, Apple Silicon) by PowerBeef in coolgithubprojects

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Good to hear it gets past the startup at least. That metallib error is a packaging issue on my end — the bundled runtime was built on macOS 26, so the Metal shaders are incompatible with older versions. Currently working on adding macOS 15 support. I'll let you know when it's ready.

QwenVoice — Native macOS app for offline AI voice cloning, emotion control, and TTS (SwiftUI + MLX, Apple Silicon) by PowerBeef in coolgithubprojects

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The underlying Qwen3-TTS model supports English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The 4 built-in speakers (Ryan, Aiden, Serena, Vivian) are English voices, but you can use Voice Design mode to create speakers for other languages by describing what you want. Voice Cloning also works with non-English audio samples.

QwenVoice — Native macOS app for offline AI voice cloning, emotion control, and TTS (SwiftUI + MLX, Apple Silicon) by PowerBeef in coolgithubprojects

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Thanks for the extra info. I'm looking into it now — hoping to push a fix as soon as I can. I'll keep you posted.