[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f1yzbpd7kc1e40":3},{"code":4,"message":5,"data":6,"timestamp":57},10000,"success",{"full_name":7,"position":8,"description":9,"language":10,"stars":11,"forks":12,"stars_gained":13,"age_days":14,"hn_threads":15,"one_liner":28,"summary_md":29,"topic":30,"github_topics":33,"license":53,"homepage":54,"updated_at":55,"history":56},"abus-aikorea\u002Fvoice-pro",15,"Gradio WebUI for creators and developers, featuring key TTS (Edge-TTS, kokoro) and zero-shot Voice Cloning (E2 & F5-TTS, CosyVoice), with Whisper audio processing, YouTube download, Demucs vocal isolation, and multilingual translation.","Python",13349,1926,338,817,[16,22],{"id":17,"title":18,"points":19,"comments":20,"posted_at":21},42261909,"Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning",271,189,"2024-11-28",{"id":23,"title":24,"points":25,"comments":26,"posted_at":27},42836934,"Show HN: Voice Cloning and Multilingual TTS in One Click (Windows)",9,3,"2025-01-27","A local WebUI that turns videos into transcribed, translated, cloned-voice dubs without cloud APIs.","## The problem\nDubbing a video into another language normally means stitching together several unrelated tools: a downloader, a vocal separator, an ASR model, a translator, and a TTS engine, each with its own install and audio format quirks. Creators, podcasters and localization researchers end up gluing these together by hand or paying per-minute cloud services. Voice-Pro bundles the whole chain into one Gradio web app that runs on your own machine, from YouTube URL to finished dubbed audio.\n\n## What's different\nThe usual alternative is a hosted service such as ElevenLabs, or a self-built pipeline of Whisper plus a TTS library. Voice-Pro's distinguishing move is breadth in one installer: it wraps Whisper\u002FFaster-Whisper\u002FWhisper-Timestamped for recognition, Deep-Translator for 100+ languages, Demucs\u002FMDX-Net for vocal isolation and several zero-shot cloning models (F5-TTS, E2-TTS, CosyVoice) alongside Edge-TTS and kokoro. In v4 the installer moved from Miniconda\u002Fpip to uv with a committed lockfile, and CUDA Toolkit\u002FVisual Studio build tools are no longer needed because dependencies ship as prebuilt wheels. That packaging work, not any single model, is what makes it more than a demo.\n\n## Who it's for\nIndividual creators, dubbing hobbyists and small localization teams on Windows with an NVIDIA GPU who want an offline, no-subscription workflow and are willing to accept model download sizes and quality that varies by language and voice. It is not for high-volume production pipelines needing SLA-backed output, nor for Linux\u002FMac-first teams: the README explicitly says only Windows + NVIDIA is verified, and even the license line is inconsistent (GPL-3.0 in metadata, LGPL in the header). Developers who only need one component should use that library directly rather than adopting a whole monolith.\n\n## Cost of adoption\nYou need Windows, an NVIDIA GPU with a substantial amount of VRAM for the cloning models, and disk space for the model zoo; first runs download weights from Hugging Face. Translation defaults to a free Google endpoint that can rate-limit, and optional Azure TTS\u002FTranslator require your own keys. Install is via the bundled `start.bat`, which bootstraps uv and Python locally; see the README for details. Most importantly, the README states development is paused for a separate product, so treat this as a frozen, source-available tool rather than an actively maintained platform, and check the license file before redistributing.\n\n## Verdict\nVoice-Pro is best read as a well-packaged integration layer, and the packaging has clearly mattered: 13.3k stars and a 271-point Show HN thread from late 2024 show real interest, and a +339 week on the Python trending board in 2026 indicates the v4 rewrite revived attention. But the authors say updates are on hold, so the risk is drift: upstream model APIs and Gradio versions will move and this repo may not follow. If you need an offline dubbing GUI now, on Windows with an NVIDIA card, it is a reasonable one-stop choice; if you need long-term maintenance or a scriptable pipeline, borrow the model choices and build your own.",{"slug":31,"name":32},"media","Media & Design",[34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52],"audiobook","faster-whisper","gradio","karaoke","podcasts","speech-recognition","speech-synthesis","speech-to-text","subtitles","text-to-speech","transcription","translator","tts","voice-cloning","voice-conversion","webui","whisper","whisperx","yt-dlp","GPL-3.0","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wctokyoseoul.com","2026-10-24T22:36:33Z",[],1792898593]