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Re:Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than... by rohan_joshi on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:57PM (#47442457)
shouldn't be hard. what backend/hardware are you interested in running this with? i'll add an example for using C++ onnx model. btw check out roadmap, our inference engine will be out 1-2 weeks and it is expected to be faster than onnx.
Re:Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than... by fwsgonzo on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:34PM (#47444698)
desktop CPUs running inference on a single background thread would be the ideal case for what I'm considering.
Re:Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than... by koolala on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:44AM (#47450584)
I want to run it in a website with Wasm and having the browser do the audio playback
Re:Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than... by ilnmtlbnm on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:39PM (#47491837)
I've been playing with running small models in browser tabs for some time, and finally decided to open some of it.

Added kitten (nano only, for now, will move on to mini) to my "web tts thing": https://github.com/idle-intelligence/tts-web

demo: https://idle-intelligence.github.io/tts-web/web/