From 8f9c3884bf944146cb122b41af3302d4129e84d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinta Chen Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:14:37 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] audit: sweep Audio & Video Processing, re-home TTS to Speech, drop birdnet, matchering MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Restructure: gtts and KittenTTS re-home to AI and Agents > Speech — TTS belongs with the speech models, not audio processing. gtts (3M/mo, a 2014 service wrapper, quiet since 2026-04) lands as Second Tier; kittentts (renamed to its canonical PyPI name, 15.3K stars within a year of creation, pip count 3.9K/mo under-measures model adoption) as challenger. Speech is now at exact cap (5/5) — future additions there require displacement. Audio keeps pydub (21.4M/mo) and librosa (11.7M/mo) as obvious choices. Video unchanged: moviepy (7M/mo) obvious choice, vidgear (25.3K/mo) challenger. Metadata reorders to tiers: mutagen (8.2M/mo) obvious choice; tinytag (5.2M/mo), beets (67.4K/mo, kept as challenger rather than minting a sole-entry subcategory — judgment call). Removed: - birdnet — 7.1K downloads/month, 1.7K stars; an applied bioacoustics tool with a genuinely small audience, not an audio-processing choice. Judgment call. - matchering — 16.1K downloads/month, 2.6K stars; a single-task automated-mastering tool with a small audience, no trajectory. Judgment call. Co-Authored-By: Claude --- README.md | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 089a8be6..051a7ce8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ _Libraries for building AI applications, LLM integrations, and autonomous agents - [openai-whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper) - A general-purpose automatic speech recognition model trained on 680k hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data. - [funasr](https://github.com/modelscope/FunASR) - Industrial-grade speech recognition toolkit with 170x realtime speed, 50+ languages, speaker diarization, and emotion detection. - [vibevoice](https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice) - A family of open-source voice AI models from Microsoft for text-to-speech and long-form speech recognition. + - [gtts](https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS) - Python library and CLI tool for converting text to speech using Google Translate TTS. + - [kittentts](https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS) - Lightweight ONNX text-to-speech library with small CPU-friendly models. ### Deep Learning @@ -939,19 +941,15 @@ _Libraries for manipulating images._ _Libraries for manipulating audio, video, and their metadata._ - Audio - - [birdnet](https://github.com/birdnet-team/BirdNET-Analyzer) - Deep learning framework for acoustic species detection; identifies bird species from audio recordings using TensorFlow. - - [gtts](https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS) - Python library and CLI tool for converting text to speech using Google Translate TTS. - - [KittenTTS](https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS) - Lightweight ONNX text-to-speech library with small CPU-friendly models. - - [librosa](https://github.com/librosa/librosa) - Python library for audio and music analysis. - - [matchering](https://github.com/sergree/matchering) - A library for automated reference audio mastering. - [pydub](https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub) - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface. + - [librosa](https://github.com/librosa/librosa) - Python library for audio and music analysis. - Video - [moviepy](https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy) - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs. - [vidgear](https://github.com/abhiTronix/vidgear) - Most Powerful multi-threaded Video Processing framework. - Metadata - - [beets](https://github.com/beetbox/beets) - A music library manager and [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/) tagger. - [mutagen](https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen) - A Python module to handle audio metadata. - [tinytag](https://github.com/tinytag/tinytag) - A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files. + - [beets](https://github.com/beetbox/beets) - A music library manager and [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/) tagger. ### Game Development