Chinny User Reviews

Name: Chinny: Offline Voice Cloner
Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)

Chinny: Offline Voice Cloner

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Works great, but is basic..

It’s a great little tool and proven useful for projects now. However it’s basic with a lot of room for improvement.

There are no emotional tags support in text prompts for finer deliver; no speed or pitch controls, but there are a few options. Very hard to predict or control the outcome of elongated words and punctuation to achieve more naturally speaking audio.

Hoping for updates!

Angelriah143

5 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. These are fundamental limitations of the model we used, and we are now trying to find alternative models that balance size (for local use) and performance.

Best text to speech for what is out there

Running something locally is pretty cool.

Harry 246314

5 months ago

Fun App, recommend a few things

This is a lot of fun and works fairly well on an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Short text inputs all worked without issue, but as soon as the text got longer, crashing was much more frequent. Not sure if it’s still hitting OOM or what. I love that this is offline and doesn’t collect data and I understand that comes with limitations. One recommendation would be to add a way to support multiple TTS models but just default to your favorite for simplicity. That would help it scale as more models come out with different tradeoffs in performance. Looking forward to where you take this.

yetAnotheriOSUser

7 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback! Please try Ver 1.0.3 which should fix the OOM and crash issue. For multi model support, there are many small TTS models like kokoro can be added easily but there are already similar apps. We focus on voice cloning, and based on our testing so far, most models are not iOS-friendly. We are keeping an eye on recent developments and will definitely add new models as suitable ones become available.

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Crashing every time I try generate. I only gave 2 stars in hopes that it will be fixed and work.

AnotherRevieweryetagain

8 months ago

Response from developer

Hi, the crash is commonly caused by running out of memory. Chinny requires at least 3.5 GB of FREE RAM ((not the total RAM of your phone) to run on an iPhone. If you have other apps running simultaneously, or you’re using an older-generation iPhone, it may not work.

1st time generated and next was crashed

The 1st time i used it was ok. Then it keep crashing.

Farhan Halim

8 months ago

Response from developer

Keeps crashing

Please fix it

JDWill2004

9 months ago

Response from developer

Really good TTS, and it’s free?!

You expect the free TTS to be somewhat bad and hard to listen to long-term but this one is great! It also runs on your local device without Wi-Fi so I can set it running (for free!) during work and in the evening, I’ve got a whole mp3 generated. Good stuff.

Bridge newbie

9 months ago

Chinnny App Review

Overall, a pretty solid app. I’m kinda new to voice cloning, so take this with a grain of salt. The controls are simple and fairly intuitive. The cloned voice is clear and annunciates, but I wouldn’t say it matches the original voice. I tried a few different samples-none 100% matched the original speaker, most only produces a slight resemblance to the original. For my application, it is more important to produce a clear, easy to understand voice than to be able to recognize/identify a specific speaker’s voice. I would also note that it does speed up the output voice. In order to produce a steady output, I had to drastically slow down the input-borderline obnoxiously slow. For features/improvement: I couldn’t find a way to store voice samples on the app. Also, the adjustments for pre and post generation seem different. I’d like the same sliding scale/options on the input side, then be able to go in and fine tune an individual segment if needed. Finally, a way to easily adjust the tempo or speed without affecting the voice pitch would be nice. Again, fairly new to voice cloning, but for producing somewhat natural sounding voiceovers - especially for not requiring a subscription and keeping everything local - it’s the best option that I’ve found.

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