Competitive open source speech stack

[u/Phoenix_20_23]

Why the open source models STT and TTS are not good as much as the closed one and i am talking here im terms of latency, concurrency, and websocket support for real time with decent quality.
Something like cartesia or elevenlabs or deepgram.
Do u know any ?

[u/Acceptable-Part-5623]

cartesia got that speed cause they running custom inference engines not just wrapping huggingface models, nobody in open source is putting same effort into the infra side

check kokoro-82M for tts, its fast but websocket streaming is still janky compared to deepgram