Recently, the KittenML team released their new open-source text-to-speech model - Kitten TTS on the Hugging Face platform. The design goal of this model is to achieve high-quality speech synthesis while maintaining a lightweight and efficient structure, making it suitable for deployment on various devices. Kitten TTS has only 15 million parameters, and its size is less than 25MB, which makes it especially suitable for environments with limited resources.

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Kitten TTS supports running without a GPU, which means users can perform speech synthesis on regular CPU devices, greatly reducing the usage barrier. The model also provides a variety of high-quality voice options, ensuring that the generated speech is more natural and smooth, suitable for various application scenarios. In addition, the inference speed of Kitten TTS has been optimized, allowing real-time speech synthesis to meet users' needs for speed.

To help users get started quickly, KittenML also provides simple installation and usage guides. Users can install the corresponding library through the pip command and call the model with simple code to generate high-quality audio. For example, when users input the text "This high-quality TTS model can run without a GPU," the model will output the corresponding audio file, which is convenient for users to save and use.

Kitten TTS is currently in the developer preview stage. In the future, fully trained model weights, mobile SDKs, and web versions will be released, further expanding the application range. KittenML hopes that through this model, it can promote the popularization of text-to-speech technology and help more developers and enterprises easily implement speech synthesis functions in their projects.

The release of Kitten TTS marks another step toward broader applications of AI speech synthesis technology. We look forward to this model bringing convenience and innovative experiences to more users in the future.

Key Points:   

🐱 Kitten TTS is an open-source lightweight text-to-speech model with a size less than 25MB, suitable for various devices.   

⚡ The model supports running without a GPU, ensuring high-quality speech synthesis on ordinary CPUs.   

🚀 Kitten TTS provides simple installation and usage guides, allowing users to get started quickly and generate audio.