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Russell Ballestrini	cd4248045e	Update MODELS.md with comprehensive TTS engine documentation ... - Expanded Piper TTS and Coqui XTTS sections with full details - Added Mozilla TTS (historical reference, skip in favor of Coqui) - Added Chatterbox (voice assistant framework) - Added Mimic 3 (Mycroft TTS, at-risk from shutdown) - Added eSpeak NG (legacy formant synthesis, 100+ languages) - Added Kokoro TTS (new 2024 project, StyleTTS2-based) - Expanded Silero TTS as HIGHEST priority (actively maintained) - Documented licenses, repositories, model hubs for all engines - Added integration effort estimates and raccoon priorities This update provides comprehensive tracking of all TTS engines for the raccoon mission to rescue and integrate abandoned models. 🦝 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>	2025-11-09 10:37:57 -05:00
Russell Ballestrini	3a9e27e556	Add comprehensive TTS model and mirror documentation ... docs/MODELS.md: - Document 10+ abandoned TTS engines to integrate - Piper TTS (integrated, fixed) - Coqui XTTS v2 (integrated, company shut down) - Silero TTS (HIGH PRIORITY - still active, fast) - StyleTTS2 (HIGH PRIORITY - best quality) - Fish Speech (active, good quality) - Kokoro, Bark, Tortoise, MetaVoice (lower priority) - Integration roadmap with time estimates - Performance targets and storage requirements docs/MIRRORS.md: - Multi-tier mirror strategy for resilience - Tier 1: Upstream (HuggingFace, PyPI, GitHub) - Tier 2: Self-hosted MinIO on ai.foxhop.net - Tier 3: Archive.org for public archival - Tier 4: IPFS for decentralization - Complete implementation with scripts and configs - Fallback download logic - Recovery scenarios - Cost: $0-20/month Raccoon mission: Ensure TTS keeps working when upstream dies. Documentation-first approach before implementing features. 🦝 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>	2025-11-09 09:28:02 -05:00