Linus Tech Tips – just experimenting with REFMOD by u/LuisaPinguinnn

For reference here’s the post about REFMOD by it’s creator (u/LuisaPinguinnn). I basically used an old dataset of Linus I had back from the SDXL days to extract a .safetensor file (“mod”) using the nodes from the repo. When using the mod, you don’t need reference images anymore. My prompt is basically just “A youtube …

We open-sourced Sopro V2 Turbo – a 120M voice cloning TTS model that runs 5x faster than real time on CPU

Sopro V2 Turbo is an open-source TTS model that runs locally. Clones a voice from 5-20s of audio ~300ms to first audio on a laptop CPU English, European Portuguese, French, German Local web UI: uvx –from sopro soprotts serve There’s also a Python API and a browser package (@soprotts/onnx-web) for WebGPU/WASM. Repo: https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/sopro Benchmarks + …

Time saver while learning how to prompt Minimax.

Rather than relying on Z-image, or a different program to wrangle up a first frame, I’ve been using Minimax for the whole process, and the results have been pretty instructive. It’s not a perfect system, but being able to take advantage of its understanding of people, references, and shot composition for the first frame produces …

Sparse attention for H3 minimax, enjoy up to 2.5x speed up.

Added to my node pack, sparse attention SLA node for H3 Minimax. speed increase of up to 2.5x. enjoy. you can use it with whatever turbo you like, doesn’t actually require the SLA lora. if you oom, add comfykitch attention before it, they work together. you’ll get an additional 5-10% speedup. https://github.com/PlagueKind/ComfyUI-PlagueKind-Nodes credit to pl0x …