I want to say, a lot of effort has been made recently to allow you to Self-Host Omnivore. I have done a lot to move it over so that all the features are self-hostable, including rewriting the entire PDF stack. I received a lot of support from the devs doing this too.

I know the decisions of the Dev team were disappointing, but it's also worth pointing out that the site was kept up until around last month - despite the warning stating that'd be down in November.

Omnivore could have shut down their code base, and prevented self-hosting entirely. I'm glad they didn't.

What's the contribution model moving forward? I see the repository is still active, but is it not still under the Eleven's control? How will it evolve when they stop accepting pull requests?

It won’t be under Elevens control, part of the deal I believe. They’re allowed to remain opensource. Not folded into ElevenLabs.

As for contribution model, it’s still something I’m trying to figure out. For the moment, it was just trying to get a self host build ready and working.

But I have admin rights to the repo, and am not working for ElevenLabs, nor officially Omnivore. I was just a contributor before.

That's good to know, thanks.

You can fight back by supporting and advocating for open source foundation text to speech models. XTTS, GptSoVits, Tortoise, Zonos, etc.

Open source models drive proprietary foundation models' margin to zero.

The only reason elevenlabs became a unicorn was their margin. If they became a commodity, they'd find themselves in a deep pit.

Sounds good. Do any of these have iOS or Android apps?

OMG I didn't realize that had happened. That sucks. Omnivore was great. But now I'm really glad I didn't make it part of my processes.

This is my main gripe with this company

wait till you find out about Scam Altam and his company x)