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
Summary
Kyutai released Pocket TTS, a text-to-speech model capable of cloning a voice from just 5 seconds of audio, running on CPU and released under the MIT license. It was benchmarked against Kokoro, Supertonic, and Inflect-Nano for English TTS.
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