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Re:Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model by gary_0 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:04PM (#44807147)
Not open source. "You will need internet connectivity to validate your AccessKey with Picovoice license servers ... If you wish to increase your limits, you can purchase a subscription plan." https://github.com/Picovoice/orca#accesskey
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Re:Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model by cakealert on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @02:20AM (#44808357)
Going online is a dealbreaker but if you really need it you could use ghidra to fix that. I had tried to find a conversion of their model to onnx (making their proprietary pipeline useless) but failed.

Hopefully open source will render them irrelevant in the future.

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Re:Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model by papichulo2023 on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @02:57AM (#44808588)
The guy is just spamming the project in a lot of comments.
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