Kitten TTS 😻

Kitten TTS is an open-source realistic text-to-speech model with just 15 million parameters, designed for lightweight deployment and high-quality voice synthesis.

Currently in developer preview

✨ Features

• Ultra-lightweight: Model size less than 25MB
• CPU-optimized: Runs without GPU on any device
• High-quality voices: Several premium voice options available
• Fast inference: Optimized for real-time speech synthesis

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

pip install https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/releases/download/0.1/kittentts-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl

Basic Usage

from kittentts import KittenTTS
m = KittenTTS("KittenML/kitten-tts-nano-0.1")

audio = m.generate("This high quality TTS model works without a GPU")

# Save the audio
import soundfile as sf
sf.write('output.wav', audio, 24000)

💻 System Requirements

Works literally everywhere

Checklist

• Release a preview model
• Release the fully trained model weights
• Release mobile SDK
• Release web version