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Kitten TTS 😻

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🎉 ANNOUNCEMENT: New version of KittenTTS is now available to download!

Kitten TTS is an open-source realistic text-to-speech model with just 15 million parameters, designed for lightweight deployment and high-quality voice synthesis.

Currently in developer preview

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Email the creators with any questions : info@stellonlabs.com

Features

  • Ultra-lightweight: Model size less than 25MB
  • CPU-optimized: Runs without GPU on any device
  • High-quality voices: Several premium voice options available
  • Fast inference: Optimized for real-time speech synthesis

Models

Model Params Size Link
kitten-tts-mini 80M 80MB 🤗 KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-0.8
kitten-tts-micro 40M 41MB 🤗 KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8
kitten-tts-nano 15M 56MB 🤗 KittenML/kitten-tts-nano-0.8
kitten-tts-nano-int8 quantized 15M 19MB 🤗 KittenML/kitten-tts-nano-0.8-int8

Some users are facing minor issues with the kitten-tts-nano-int8 model. We are looking into it. Please report to us if you face any issues.

Demo Video

final_vid.mp4

Quick Start

Installation

pip install https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/releases/download/0.8/kittentts-0.8.0-py3-none-any.whl

Basic Usage

from kittentts import KittenTTS
m = KittenTTS("KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-0.8")

audio = m.generate("This high quality TTS model works without a GPU", voice='Jasper' )

# available_voices : ['Bella', 'Jasper', 'Luna', 'Bruno', 'Rosie', 'Hugo', 'Kiki', 'Leo']

# Save the audio
import soundfile as sf
sf.write('output.wav', audio, 24000)

System Requirements

Works literally everywhere. Needs python3.12. We recommend using conda.

Checklist

  • Release a preview model
  • Release the fully trained model weights
  • Release mobile SDK
  • Release web version

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