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

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Post by rohan_joshi »

tredre3 wrote: post #100

This is something I've been looking for (the Downloading https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/releases/download/0.8.1/kittentts-0.8.1-py3-none-any.whl (22 kB) Collecting num2words (from kittentts==0.8.1) Using cached num2words-0.5.14-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (13 kB) Collecting spacy (from kittentts==0.8.1) Using cached spacy-3.8.11-cp314-cp314-win_amd64.whl.metadata (28 kB) Collecting espeakng_loader (from kittentt…

this is some env issue sorry for the inconvenience, lemme fix it. can you dm me w your env? discord / github / mail / anywhere works.

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

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Post by Barbing »

rohan_joshi wrote: post #99
arcanemachiner wrote: post #96

Fingers crossed for a normal-sounding voice this time around. The cute Kitten voices are nice, but I want something I can take seriously when I'm listening to an audiobook.

How is the Bruno voice for this one? there will also be another release in ~15-20 days where we have more professional voices. if you'd like to get early access and give feedback lmk, or dm me.

Hey Rohan, love to contribute feedback.

Huge fan of Ava multilingual and hopefully there are many other others with similar taste, so my feedback might shape things towards a halfway decent direction at least for some.

btw, use case is most often to listen to news/articles.

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

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Post by Barbing »

rohan_joshi wrote: post #70
boutell wrote: post #67

Great stuff. Is your team interested in the STT problem?

Yes, we've started working on it and will have a range of stt models v soon. lmk if you have a prod use-case in mind?

Many of my use cases are similar to those of: Robert J. P. Oberg - (GitHub) ognistik

Perhaps his YouTube channel is worth a watch. This video from four months ago compares various STT tools: https://youtu.be/pKU9CABtnOw

Speaking of apps that would, if I had to guess, love to integrate you:

FluidVoice is incredible and developing quickly. Handy is really hot right now. Also have VoiceInk out there, solid iOS option.

[ps-not parent commenter]

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

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Post by dawdler-purge »

I created a CLI wrapper for Kitten TTS: https://github.com/newptcai/purr

BTW, it seems that kitten (the Python package) has the following chain of dependencies: kittentts → misaki[en] → spacy-curated-transformers

So if you install it directly via uv, it will pull torch and NVIDIA CUDA packages (several GB), which are not needed to run kitten.

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

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Post by Aerroon »

kevin42 wrote: post #6

What I love about OpenClaw is that I was able to send it a message on Discord with just this github URL and it started sending me voice messages using it within a few minutes. It also gave me a bunch of different benchmarks and sample audio. I'm impressed with the quality given the size. I don't love the voices, but it's not bad. Running on an intel 9700 CPU, it's about 1.5x realtime using the 80M model. It wasn't an…

I'm jealous. It took me far longer and much more frustration to get it to run.

Had to get the right Python version and make sure it didn't break anything with the previous Python version. A friend suggested using Docker, so I started down that path until I realized I'd probably have to set the whole thing up there myself. Eventually got it to run and I think I didn't break anything else.

I hate Python so much.

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

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Post by cristoperb »

dawdler-purge wrote: post #106

I created a CLI wrapper for Kitten TTS: https://github.com/newptcai/purr BTW, it seems that kitten (the Python package) has the following chain of dependencies: kittentts → misaki[en] → spacy-curated-transformers So if you install it directly via uv, it will pull torch and NVIDIA CUDA packages (several GB), which are not needed to run kitten.

Thanks, your install script worked for me.

In case it helps anyone else, the first time I tried to run purr I got "OSError: PortAudio library not found". Installing libportaudio (apt install libportaudio2) got it running.

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

dawdler-purge wrote: post #106

I created a CLI wrapper for Kitten TTS: https://github.com/newptcai/purr BTW, it seems that kitten (the Python package) has the following chain of dependencies: kittentts → misaki[en] → spacy-curated-transformers So if you install it directly via uv, it will pull torch and NVIDIA CUDA packages (several GB), which are not needed to run kitten.

Thank you so much, that fixes an enormous pain point I was hitting. It's not just the size, that dependency chain was actually breaking on my machine and failing to install. Are we losing something by dropping the extra dependencies?

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

rohan_joshi wrote: post #92
amelius wrote: post #78

How long until I can buy this as a chip for my Arduino projects?

not v long. until then you start running tts on phones, wearables and r pis. at the model level, we'll have a model for this kind of mcu's later this year.

You can (just about?) already run on a pi zero, right? That's not literally a chip, but in practical utility it can't be very different
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