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

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Post by yunusabd » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 7:33 AM UTC

theshrike79 wrote: post #348

yunusabd wrote: post #277

Impressive, might use this for https://hnup.date

Love the idea, but the text it produces is way too flowery for my taste "A new tool is stirring up excitement and debate in the programming community" Just give me the facts without American style embellishments. You're not trying to sell me anything =)

Sorry, just saw this.

I absolutely agree, but it's really stubborn with the flowery language. I tried adding things like "DO NOT USE EMPTY PHRASES LIKE 'EVER-EVOLVING TECH LANDSCAPE'!!!!!" to the prompt, but it just can't resist.

I want to give the whole system an overhaul, maybe newer models are better at this. Or maybe a second LLM pass to de-flowerize (lol) the language.

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

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Post by rldjbpin » Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 10:14 AM UTC

blopker wrote: post #8

Web version: https://clowerweb.github.io/kitten-tts-web-demo/ It sounds ok, but impressive for the size.

besides issues with webgpu (it is in beta fwiw), it'd be nice to increase voice speed through the setting without affecting the voice pitch.

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

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Post by soasme » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 7:41 AM UTC

smusamashah wrote: post #139

mlboss wrote: post #9

Reddit post with generated audio sample: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1mhyzp7/kitten_...

The reddit video is awesome. I don't understand how people are calling it an OK model. Under 25MB and cpu only for this quality is amazing.

Just made a TTS tool based on Kitten TTS, fully browser based, no Python server backend: https://quickeditvideo.com/tts/ A tts model of this size should be industry standard!