Blog posts tagged “Local AI”
The best open-weight speech-to-text models you can self-host in October 2026, ranked on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard: Qwen3-ASR, Cohere Transcribe, Granite Speech, Parakeet, Voxtral, Whisper and more, with licenses, speed and serving.
A guide to the best open-weight text-to-speech models you can self-host in 2026, ranked by Artificial Analysis Speech Arena Elo. Compare Breeze TTS 2, Fish Audio S2 Pro, Step Audio EditX, Voxtral TTS, Qwen3-TTS, VoxCPM2, GLM-TTS, Higgs Audio V3, Kokoro 82M and Chatterbox on quality, licensing, hardware and deployment.
Meetily picked up 2,500+ GitHub stars in a day with a self-hosted AI meeting assistant. Here's what it does, how the Rust/Whisper/Ollama stack fits together, and how to share a running instance with Pinggy.
VoxCPM2 is a 2B-parameter open-source TTS model with voice cloning, voice design from a text description, and a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API. Here's how to run it on your local GPU and expose it publicly with Pinggy.
Learn how to run Jan, a ChatGPT alternative, locally and share it online using Pinggy. Complete guide to setting up your private AI assistant.
