Ominous Industries

  • Testing locally run AI portrait animation

    Testing locally run AI portrait animation

    The thing I most look forward to in the AI space is being able to generate videos locally, uncensored, and free of subscriptions or content filters. Things like SORA and the up-and-coming Luma Dream Machine are a cool display of...

  • Testing MetaVoice 1B - Local TTS & Voice Cloning

    Testing MetaVoice 1B - Local TTS & Voice Cloning

    I was recently reading the very interesting Localllama subreddit and came across a thread asking about offline TTS solutions. I have had some experience with a few different offline TTS solutions, such as Piper, but one of the responses to...

  • Apple Silicon Speed Test: LocalLLM on M1 vs. M2 vs. M2 Pro vs. M3

    Apple Silicon Speed Test: LocalLLM on M1 vs. M2 vs. M2 Pro vs. M3

    I wanted to test the speed of some different Apple Silicon-equipped machines. As many of my interests these days revolve around using Local LLM setups, I figured the best way to test these machines would be to run a local...