Pocket TTS: Real-Time Speech Synthesis on CPU
Pocket TTS delivers real-time text-to-speech synthesis optimized for CPU execution, enabling fast and efficient speech generation without requiring GPU
Someone found a surprisingly good text-to-speech model that actually runs on CPU without melting your laptop.
Kyutai released Pocket TTS, which generates natural-sounding speech at real-time speeds on consumer hardware. The model uses a continuous audio approach instead of traditional discrete tokens, giving it better voice quality.
Quick start:
Then generate audio with:
audio = tts.generate("Your text here")The repo at https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts has streaming examples too. Models are on Hugging Face at https://huggingface.co/kyutai/pocket-tts.
What’s neat is it handles prosody pretty well - pauses, emphasis, natural rhythm - without needing a GPU. Runs comfortably on a mid-range CPU, which opens up offline use cases that weren’t practical before.
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