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Re: Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

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Post by ilaksh »

sschueller wrote: post #32

I'm still looking for the "perfect" setup in order to clone my voice and use it locally to send voice replies in telegram via openclaw. Does anyone have auch a setup? I want to be my own personal assistant... EDIT: I can provide it a RTX 3080ti.

You need to provide info on your hardware. Pocket-TTS does cloning on CPU, but for me randomly outputs something pretty weird sounding mixed in with like 90% good outputs. So it hasn't been quite stable enough to run without checking output. But maybe it depends on your voice sample.

Qwen 3 TTS is good for voice cloning but requires GPU of some sort.

Re: Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

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Post by rohan_joshi »

armcat wrote: post #40

This is awesome, well done. Been doing lot of work with voice assistants, if you can replicate voice cloning Qwen3-TTS into this small factor, you will be absolute legends!

thanks a lot, our voice cloning model will be out by May. we're experimenting w some very cool ways of doing voice cloning at 15M but will have a range of models going upto 500M

Re: Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

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Post by rohan_joshi »

pumanoir wrote: post #37

The example.py file says "it will run blazing fast on any GPU. But this example will run on CPU." I couldn't locate how to run it on a GPU anywhere in the repo.

thanks for the feedback. i'll add an example of running it on gpu.

Re: Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

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Post by Zopieux »

rohan_joshi wrote: post #11
Tacite wrote: post #4

Is it English only?

as of now its english only. the training for multilingual model is underway and should be out in April! what languages are you most interested in? Right now, we are providing deployments for custom languages + voices through support form on the github.

French, Spanish, German would go a long way.

Re: Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

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Post by rohan_joshi »

vezycash wrote: post #44

Would an Android app of this be able to replace the built in tts?

yes, our mobile sdk is coming soon(eta 2 weeks) so we should be able to replace the built-in version of it. can you share what tts use-case you're thinking of?

Re: Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

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Post by rohan_joshi »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #19

I'm thinking of giving "voice" to my virtual pets (think Pokemon but less than a dozen). The pets are made up animals but based on real animal, like Mouseier from Mouse (something like that). Is this possible? Tldr: generate human-like voice based on animal sound. Anyway maybe it doesn't make sense.

it'd be an interesting experiment to try what kind of information is extracted from the samples of the pet sounds. it'd be so cool if it can just get the features of the audio and then still be able to reproduce the audio in english lol. we would need a really good "speaker" encoder i think.

Re: Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

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Post by satvikpendem »

rohan_joshi wrote: post #47
vezycash wrote: post #44

Would an Android app of this be able to replace the built in tts?

yes, our mobile sdk is coming soon(eta 2 weeks) so we should be able to replace the built-in version of it. can you share what tts use-case you're thinking of?

I use an epub reader like Moon+ with the built in TTS to turn epubs into audiobooks, and I tried Kokoro TTS but the issue was too much lag between sentences plus it doesn't preprocess the next sentence while it reads out the current one.
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