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Three Bake-offs to Find a Voice Cloning Engine That Runs Entirely on a MacBook
Community description: I'm building a Mac app where a parent clones their own voice on their own machine, and the app turns...
Dev.to | Oct 2, 2026 | 王冲
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All benchmarks below ran on a MacBook Pro M1 Pro / 32GB, cloning the same reference voice (a LibriVox narrator, 60s of dense speech) reading ~40 seconds of Peter Rabbit. The problem was speed: 808 seconds of compute for 40 seconds of audio (RTF 20). Reference length is your biggest speed lever.
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