Everyone is talking about giant AI datacenters, liquid cooling, and enough power to run a small country. That is not us.
The main focus of 101soundboards is simple: playing sounds and having fun. Our text-to-speech feature is just a little add-on for laughs, not the point of the site.
101soundboards does not train generative AI. Our Text-to-Speech (TTS) is one-shot.
What does "one-shot" mean?
One-shot means our text-to-speech feature runs once from a single sound clip and then forgets it.
We do not train a model on a voice. We just take the sound you give us, generate the clip you asked for, and that is it.
It is the opposite of the big generative AI systems that hoover up data and train for weeks, using gigawatts of power. Our old gaming PCs simply run the request and move on.
Our TTS does not run in an AI datacenter. We do not have watercooling. We do not have rows of shiny server racks. We run on old gaming PCs that were already built, already shipped, and are now living out their golden years playing sound clips.
About 30% of our power comes from renewable sources, and when the sun is shining, some of that is straight-up solar. When it is not shining, we are back on the regular grid like everyone else.
No water-cooling. No noise pollution. Just a few old gaming PCs, power, and solar when the weather cooperates.
Thanks for having fun playing sounds with us.