Products

Samuel

AI-native

Model that learns to control a silly mouth to mimic speech. Pink Trombone automated.

samuel.vvolhejn.com SourceVideo & Audio / Text-to-Speech & Voice Cloning

AI Benchmark
Desktop
Mobile
Monthly visits
<5K
Oct 2026
Public revenue
Undisclosed
No public revenue evidence yet
Entry price
Free
No monthly subscription pricing
Creators
Václav Volhejn
@vvolhejn· 1,946 followers
Launched
3mo ago
2026-08-18 · Est.

Traffic

Last 12 months
Monthly visitsData through Oct 2026
Events1 marketing move

Marketing moves

Launches, search & content, referrals, promotions
X accounts@vvolhejn

  • Launched on Show HN (2 pts)Launch

    Samuel, a Silly Speech Model — My original idea was to make a modern supercharged version of SAM, the old-school text-to-speech. Then I remembered Pink Trombone, one of…

    Aug 18 · 3mo agoLaunch page

    At the time: <5K visits/mo

Third-party reviews & case dossiers

Acquisition breakdowns, engineer reviews & open-source metrics
Show HN
2026-08-18Source
Post excerpt:
My original idea was to make a modern supercharged version of SAM, the old-school text-to-speech. Then I remembered Pink Trombone, one of my favorite creative coding projects. In the end, I decided to just make it a model that mimics speech - it would be easy to make a text-to-speech by chaining an existing TTS with a Samuel filter. The phonetics work quite

Open Source & Self-Hosting

GitHub · MCP / Skill
vvolhejn/samuel
Last commit 2026-10-11
GitHub Stars
Public repo
Forks
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License
See repository
Primary language
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Traffic sources

Oct 2026

Traffic breakdown

Channels

  • Direct40%
  • Organic Search30%
  • Referrals11%
  • Social6%
  • Other13%

Countries

  • United States100%

Search

Domain authority —Domain registered 2024-04-17

KeywordMonthly volume
pink trombone6,900

Traffic data: Vaneform

Pricing

Pricing page not identified yet, or no public pricing listed.

Pages & changes

Tracked since 2026-08-18

Key pages

Weekly snapshots
Home
samuel.vvolhejn.com/ Snapshot 2026-11-04

Changes

No pricing, plan, or positioning changes detected since tracking started.

Questions & evidence

How much website traffic does Samuel get?
Vaneform estimates <5K website visits in 2026-10. Visits can include repeat visits; this estimate measures web traffic separately from paying customers or revenue.Source
What is Samuel and what platforms does it support?
Samuel is catalogued under Text-to-Speech & Voice Cloning: Model that learns to control a silly mouth to mimic speech. Pink Trombone automated.. Supported platforms: Web.
Is Samuel open source?
Samuel has a public repository (https://github.com/vvolhejn/samuel) with its source repository published.Source

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