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Open-source State-of-the-art TTS model which runs on a CPU 😻

15 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2025-08-05 · latest 2026-03-19

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  1. …looking for (the <50MB models in particular). Unfortunately my feedback is as follows: Downloading https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/releases/download/0.8.1/kittentts-0.8.1-py3-none-any.whl (22 kB) Collecting num2words (from…
    comment by tredre3 · 2026-03-19 · in Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB
  2. …applications in the next few months. Code, weights and more information available on our github: https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS
    comment by rohan_joshi · 2026-02-20 · in Show HN: Three new models by KittenML. <25 MB Open-source TTS. Highly Expressive
  3. A 25MB TTS model: https://github.com/kittenml/kittentts
    comment by freakynit · 2026-01-29 · in Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
  4. …[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/vosk-browser [1] https://github.com/diffusionstudio/vits-web [2] https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS [3] https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/personaplex/ [4] https://www.tavus.io/post/sparrow-1-human-le…
    comment by soulofmischief · 2026-01-24 · in Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
  5. I have tested its speed on CPU and compared it with Piper, kokoro, and matcha. See https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/issues/40
    comment by csukuangfj · 2025-08-08 · in Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
  6. https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/pull/21/commits/0aacfc... Nice one, thanks!
    comment by tetris11 · 2025-08-06 · in Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
  7. …name = "project" version = "0.0.0" requires-python = ">=3.8" dependencies = [ "kittentts @ https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/releases/download/0.1/kittentts-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl" ] """) to get the above error.
    comment by bglusman · 2025-08-06 · in Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
  8. 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…
    comment by akx · 2025-08-06 · in Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
  9. https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/issues/17
    comment by jacereda · 2025-08-06 · in Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
  10. …phonemizer[2] which is GPL-3.0 licensed. In its current state, it's effectively GPL licensed. [1]: https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/blob/main/kittentts/on... [2]: https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer Edit: It looks like I replied to…
    comment by woadwarrior01 · 2025-08-06 · in Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
  11. …about our project in HN! I am one of the creators of KittenTTS Here is the link to our repo: https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS
    comment by divamgupta · 2025-08-06 · in Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model
  12. https://huggingface.co/KittenML/kitten-tts-nano-0.1 https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS This is the model and Github page, this blog post looks very much AI generated.
    comment by GaggiX · 2025-08-06 · in Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model