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Pocket TTS running in (mobile) Safari
by ldenoue·May 22, 2026·1 point·0 comments
AI Analysis
●●●BangerWizardryZero to OneNiche Gem
100M param TTS streaming in mobile Safari when cloud APIs dominate.
Strengths
- •Fixes SIMD relaxed vs fixed incompatibility to enable Safari support.
- •Streams audio chunks progressively instead of waiting for full generation.
- •Runs entirely client-side with no server dependency or API keys.
Weaknesses
- •192MB initial download is heavy for mobile data connections.
- •Limited voice selection compared to cloud TTS services like ElevenLabs.
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Target Audience
Frontend developers, privacy-focused users, mobile web experimenters
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Coqui TTS · Piper TTS · Mozilla TTS
Post Description
The original wasm port didn’t run on Safari so I used Codex to help me fix the issue: was that simd relaxed didn’t work on Safari, only simd-fixed
What’s good about Pocket TTS is that it streams generated audio chunks.
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