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Re:Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model by woadwarrior01 on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:07AM (#44810063)
> There is a third option: asking the project for an exception.

IIUC, the project isn't at the liberty to grant such an exception because it inherits its GPL license from espeak-ng.

Re:Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model by dspillett on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:13AM (#44810097)
Ah, yes, good catch, I didn't look deeper into the dependency tree at all. I'll update my footnote to include that as one of the reasons an exception may be impossible (or at least highly impractical).