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A TTS that fits in your CPU (and pocket)

10 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2026-01-16 · latest 2026-10-20

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  1. New version of PocketTTS is apparently censored: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts/issues/390
    comment by sorenjan · 2026-10-20 · in Voxtral 3
  2. …previous version. However, I found Qwen ASR and QwenTTS to be quite good, and not too large. Also https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts was also great (but only a few languages)
    comment by dr_hooo · 2026-10-20 · in Voxtral 3
  3. wow now that's a really tiny tts model. is there a comparison to https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts ?
    comment by yako21000 · 2026-07-19 · in Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb
  4. kokoro is decent but pocket-tts is much better especially when you rip a good voice. https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts the onnx version of pocket-tts does perform better. https://huggingface.co/KevinAHM/pocket-tts-onnx
    comment by teravor · 2026-07-07 · in Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
  5. …arbitrary prompt to control the style> [1] Hex https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex [2] Pocket-TTS https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts [3] Voice plugin for Claude Code: https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...
    comment by d4rkp4ttern · 2026-02-16 · in Audio is the one area small labs are winning
  6. …and /tmp sentinel files to manage async playback state and prevent infinite loops. [1] Pocket-TTS: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts [2] Claude-code voice plugin: https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...
    comment by d4rkp4ttern · 2026-02-12 · in Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
  7. …Parakeet v3 TDT: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 For Text to Speech, Pocket TTS: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts Custom MCP to hook this into Claude Code, with a little bit of hacking around to get my AirPods'…
    comment by yberreby · 2026-02-05 · in Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw
  8. …to control the style or other aspects> [1] Handy https://github.com/cjpais/Handy [2] Pocket-TTS https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts [3] Voice plugin for Claude Code: https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools?tab=readme-o...
    comment by d4rkp4ttern · 2026-01-24 · in Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
  9. …quality (English only). I use it in my voice plugin [2] for quick voice updates in Claude Code. [1] https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts [2] https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools?tab=readme-o...
    comment by d4rkp4ttern · 2026-01-23 · in Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
  10. …of despair," Which... Doesn't exactly inspire faith in a TTS system. (Marius seems better; posted https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts/issues/38 )
    comment by mgaudet · 2026-01-16 · in Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice