KittenTTS

State-of-the-art TTS model under 25MB 😻

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State-of-the-art TTS model under 25MB 😻

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tetris11·Aug 6, 2025

Thanks for the quick intro into UV, it looks like docker layers for python I found the TTS a bit slow so I piped the output into ffplay with 1.2x speedup to make it sound a bit better uvx --from git+https://github.com/akx/KittenTTS.git@pr-21-22-24-25 kittentts --text "I serve 12 different beers at my restaurant for over 1000000 customers" --voice expr-voice-3-m --output - | ffplay -af "atempo=1.2" -f wav -

In Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model

akx·Aug 6, 2025

I opened a couple of PRs to fix this situation: https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/pull/21 https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/pull/24 https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/pull/25 If you have `uv` installed, you can try my merged ref that has all of these PRs (and #22, a fix for short generation being trimmed unnecessarily) with uvx --from git+https://github.com/akx/KittenTTS.git@pr-21-22-24-25 kittentts --output output.wav --text "This high quality TTS model works without a GPU"

In Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model