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Kyutai's Pocket TTS offers CPU-based voice cloning from 5s audio

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Kyutai has released Pocket TTS, a ~100M parameter streaming language model that generates audio tokens autoregressively. This model is notable for its ability to perform zero-shot voice cloning from just 5 seconds of audio, a feature not present in other CPU-friendly models like Kokoro, Supertonic, and Inflect-Nano. While Pocket TTS is the slowest among the tested models, it offers voice cloning capabilities on CPU without requiring a GPU, making it a unique option for interactive applications. AI

IMPACT Enables voice cloning on consumer hardware, potentially lowering the barrier for AI-powered audio generation.

RANK_REASON New product release from a smaller developer, offering a specific niche capability (CPU voice cloning).

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Kyutai's Pocket TTS offers CPU-based voice cloning from 5s audio

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/gvij ·

    Kyutai's Pocket TTS clones a voice from 5 seconds of audio, on CPU, under MIT. Benchmarked against Kokoro, Supertonic, and Inflect-Nano for Eng. TTS

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1up07mk/kyutais_pocket_tts_clones_a_voice_from_5_seconds/"> <img alt="Kyutai's Pocket TTS clones a voice from 5 seconds of audio, on CPU, under MIT. Benchmarked against Kokoro, Supertonic, and Inflect-Nano for…

  2. r/StableDiffusion TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/gvij ·

    Voice cloning on CPU, no GPU needed. Benchmarked 4 open TTS models including Kyutai's new Pocket TTS

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1up0my7/voice_cloning_on_cpu_no_gpu_needed_benchmarked_4/"> <img alt="Voice cloning on CPU, no GPU needed. Benchmarked 4 open TTS models including Kyutai's new Pocket TTS" src="https://preview.redd.it/w6e…

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