BlackRook Posted June 3 Posted June 3 Is it still true that the MacOS version is the best version? Or have those updates made their way into the other OS versions, as well?
intruder11 Posted June 29 Author Posted June 29 (edited) On 6/3/2025 at 7:40 AM, BlackRook said: Is it still true that the MacOS version is the best version? Or have those updates made their way into the other OS versions, as well? The macOS version of SkyEye uses features of macOS (Metal, Speech Synthesis Manager) and the Apple Silicon CPUs (M1/M2/M3/M4) that are not available on the other operating systems. The parts of the code that make SkyEye great on macOS will therefore never be available on Windows and Linux. In theory, I could achieve similar levels of speech recognition performance for people who own certain Nvidia graphics cards (and on Linux, use the proprietary driver from Nvidia instead of the open Nouveau driver) by using CUDA. However, I don't own any Nvidia hardware to test on. That might change late this year/early next year if I build another rig, but for now all my Windows/Linux machines use AMD GPUs. The Speech Synthesis Manager has no direct equivalent on any other OS - technology of that quality simply does not exist outside of macOS. I've tried literally every alternative available. Even the hosted speech models from companies like OpenAI don't compare. (These Apple CPUs are so good. I hadn't bought a laptop for myself in over ten years - after work provisioned me an M4 Macbook, I went out and bought two for myself, plus a Mac Mini that's currently running SkyEye 24/7 for Flashpoint Levant. They're amazing hardware, the best non-gaming computers you can buy for the money IMO.) Edited June 29 by intruder11
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