Integrating Image-To-Text And Text-To-Speech Models (Part 1)

Joas, an AI enthusiast, describes how to build an audio description tool using Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) models. He explains how these technologies, which use machine learning to interpret visual and textual inputs and convert them into spoken words, can design an app that provides audio descriptions. Highlighting various models including "IDEFICS", "PaliGemma", and "Phi-3-Vision-128K-Instruct", he also points out resources such as OpenVLM and Vision Arena for comparing and selecting such models. The tutorial culminates in a basic guide on building an app using the BLIP VLM and VITS TTS model from Hugging Face's model hub, with the final product generating textual descriptions and audio output from image inputs.