Oct 30, 2026
Can My Computer Read My Agents? Kokoro, Qwen TTS and CKE's Work in Progress
Listen to three labeled clips as I compare CKE's Kokoro and Qwen speech work: what's working, what's slow, and what still needs proof.
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Oct 30, 2026
Listen to three labeled clips as I compare CKE's Kokoro and Qwen speech work: what's working, what's slow, and what still needs proof.
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Oct 22, 2026
A visual kernel-by-kernel comparison from text to sound, including CKE first-block math and missing codec contracts.
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Oct 11, 2026
I want my Linux workstation to read an agent's answer aloud. Whisper already helps me transcribe my own speech; Kokoro is the other direction. I have been following its path through CKE one ...
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Oct 2, 2026
In the last post I stopped at a [36,128] tensor: 36 phonemes, each mapped to a 128-number vector by three small lookup tables plus a normalization. That tensor is where the boring part ends ...
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Sep 29, 2026
Kokoro's phoneme encoder just took its first concrete step into CKE's generated-C lane. The step is deliberately small: one operation — three embedding tables plus a per-token LayerNorm â€...
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Sep 27, 2026
I have been working on speech recognition in C-Kernel-Engine for a while. Whisper can transcribe my own videos. The other direction is becoming more interesting to me now: I want my Linux wo...
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Sep 27, 2026
I Want To Use My Linux Workstation Without Looking At It I have spent a lot of time building software that lets me run AI models on CPUs. Now I want to use some of that work for a more perso...
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