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Underdog shows off a 32MB speech model in new demo
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch · By Ivan Mehta ·
Despite its small size, Underdog's new model can generate both speech and music.
The Brief
- Startup Underdog released Woof, a 32MB voice generation model built to run locally on user hardware without internet access.
- Woof follows Underdog's earlier Bark model and targets private, on-device alternatives to cloud-based speech tools.
- TechCrunch reports that despite its small size, Woof can generate both speech and music, and Underdog showed it off in a new demo.
Why it matters
A model this small that runs offline could let developers add speech generation to apps without sending user data to a cloud service. Its real quality and performance have not been independently verified in these sources.
Who’s affected
- Developers building offline or privacy-sensitive voice features
- #speech-synthesis
- #on-device-ai
- #machine-learning
- #privacy
Timeline
Underdog released Woof and showed it off in a demo
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