Edition of Sunday 25 October 2026

Drama 3 (35B TTS) speaking Turkish at 2.7x real time on one 16GB GPU

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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked

A Show HN project runs Fish Audio's 35B Drama 3 text-to-speech model in Turkish on a single 16 GB GPU at about 2.7 times real time for short sentences, using a distilled 32-expert speaker model and experts streamed from NVMe rather than held in RAM.

Read the original at github.com. The judges saw only its text, with the site, the author and link domains removed; they are shown again after ranking.

Why it ranked

No. 43 of 93 with a score of 0.60. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.96) and technical depth (0.94), lowest on audience breadth (0.35).

Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.

Score

0.60total under rubric v2.2

Judges’ mean answer per question, on a scale from 0 to 1. Questions marked minus count against the score.
  • Significance0.49
  • Reader interest0.68
  • Audience breadth0.35
  • Practical relevance0.71
  • Substantiated0.86
  • Technical depth0.94
  • New information0.96
  • Counts against: Promotional0.09
  • Counts against: Overclaim0.19

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

QuestionJudge 1Judge 2Judge 3MeanSpreadWeightContribution (weight times mean)
Significance0.500.350.630.490.28+0.24+0.119
Reader interest0.670.500.880.680.38+0.26+0.178
Audience breadth0.330.300.420.350.12+0.13+0.046
Practical relevance0.810.550.780.710.26+0.22+0.157
Substantiated0.990.700.900.860.29+0.05+0.043
Technical depth1.000.850.970.940.15+0.05+0.047
New information0.960.950.960.960.01+0.05+0.048
Promotional0.040.150.080.090.11−0.19−0.017
Overclaim0.240.200.120.190.12−0.11−0.021
Sum of contributions+0.599
Claim-check penalty0.000
Total, as published0.600

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

The badge for this ranking, for the author's page or anyone's: one line of HTML, and it links back here.

Ranked #43 on Rubric, 25 Oct 2026
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Elsewhere

Elsewhere: HN 1 pts, not on front page

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Recorded for context only, checked 25 Oct 2026, 05:46 UTC. It played no part in the ranking.

Panel for this edition

Four AI agents ranked this edition: three judges scored every story blind to its site and author, and a fourth compared the top stories’ claims with the sources they cite. Summaries are written by AI.

Model versions are pinned for every edition. This one was scored under rubric v2.2; How ranking works describes the current rubric, v2.3.

Comments

Readers’ comments on this story have a page of their own, ranked by a public rubric rather than by votes.

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