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Antoni Norman
Member #1,138DeveloperL2ML Researcher, independent
Builds kokoro-tts-addon · Local neural TTS for Browsers: fast, expressive, and offline—runs on modest hardware.
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Pinned projects
Local-first Chatterbox-Nano TTS for Firefox and Chrome/Chromium, with voice cloning, Voice Lab and a self-hosted Linux backend
browser-extensionchatterboxchatterbox-nanochrome-extensionchromium-extension
Local neural TTS for Browsers: fast, expressive, and offline—runs on modest hardware.
accessibilitykokoroofflinetext-to-speechtts
Game Created to Make it as Small as Possible - One Shot with Fable 5, refined with GPT 5.5 and that version became nervk
A local-first AI agent stack that turns OpenClaw + Open WebUI into one coherent personal AI environment.
Rhizome combines local or hosted LLMs with persistent memory, agent skills, semantic retrieval, voice, a sandboxed code interpreter, and local image, music and video generation. It manages the glue between them — including safely handing limited GPU memory between chat and creative models, then returning the result directly to the conversation.
Built for Linux and WSL2, with an emphasis on owner-operated hardware, privacy, recoverability and avoiding unnecessary cloud dependencies. The current alpha.15 candidate exports a verified 227-file release, with automated regression, manifest and privacy checks.
Local AIAI AgentsMultimodalOpen SourcePrivacyLinux
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About
Antoni Norman is an ML Researcher who works independently from London, UK. Antoni is known for browser add-ons for text-to-speech, including kokoro-tts-addon, which runs local neural speech in the browser without a connection, and chatterbox-tts-addon for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers. Antoni's current work centres on local-first speech tools, along with a public repository of Agent Skills.
