Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice

fuzzer371 1/16/2026|

Haven't we had TTS for like 20+ years? Why does AI need to be shoved into it all of a sudden. Total waste of electricity.

rhdunn 1/16/2026||

Using neural nets (machine learning) to train TTS voices has been around a long time.

[1] (2016 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03499) WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio

[2] (2017 https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10433) Parallel WaveNet: Fast High-Fidelity Speech Synthesis

[3] (2021 https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07889) UnivNet: A Neural Vocoder with Multi-Resolution Spectrogram Discriminators for High-Fidelity Waveform Generation

[4] (2022 https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14941) Neural Vocoder is All You Need for Speech Super-resolution

X-Ryl669 1/19/2026||

Read that: https://blog.cyril.by/fr/software/an-expressive-text-to-spee... and you'll find answers to your remarks

oybng 1/16/2026||

>If you want access to the model with voice cloning, go to https://huggingface.co/kyutai/pocket-tts and accept the terms, then make sure you're logged in locally with `uvx hf auth login` lol

andhuman 1/16/2026|

I’ve tried the voice clinking and it works great. I added a 9s clip and it captured the speaker pretty well.

But don’t do the fake mistake I did and use a hf token that doesn’t have access to read from repos! The error message said that I had to request access to the repo, but I’ve had already done that, so I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Turns out my HF token only had access to inference.

tempaccountabcd 1/16/2026|

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