Local ai

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.

Discover the best local LLM tools and models in 2026 that offer privacy, control, and cost-effectiveness for running powerful AI models on your own hardware.