Re:Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model
by PontifexMinimus on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:15PM
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Indeed the blurb is absurd and very off-putting. It's not a big deal that "It clocks in at under 25MB with just 15 million parameters", because text to speech is a long-solved problem, in fact the Texas Speak and Spell from 1978 (half a century ago FFS) solved it, probably with a good deal less than 25MB.
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Re:Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model
by paulryanrogers on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:23PM
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Speak and Spell was a toy. I loved it as a kid in the eighties. But it was very limited and sounded terrible.