Phonon TTS: licenses, local voices and runtime choices
A practical guide to Phonon TTS licensing, ptts versus Transformers, custom voice preparation and the limits behind device benchmarks.
Hugging Face
Hugging Face adds Egyptian and Nigerian English to its ASR benchmark
The Open ASR Leaderboard expands its private speech tests. Here’s how to read the results before choosing a transcription model.
ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: weights, deployment and license limits
Baidu’s new base checkpoint targets model builders. Its custom license, deployment requirements and pretraining status shape who can use it.
LeRobot 0.7.0 upgrade guide: checkpoints, logging and licenses
LeRobot 0.7.0 adds live robot steering and remote inference. Check old FSDP checkpoints, Trackio privacy, streaming resume and model licenses before upgrading.