For this Main Thread Podcast episode, I retrace MOSS-TTS, VoxCPM2 and F5-TTS, then Qwen3-TTS with a local LoRA adapter on my MacBook. Reference audio and chunk boundaries changed the pace. I compared the clone, a speaker-only control and the adapter under the same settings.
Listen: https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/finding-a-local-voice