Text-to-speech
Pocket TTS requirements, license & speed
By Kyutai · released 2025-12-29 · 100M parameters
Commercial useYes
Min memoryNot stated
Runs on CPUYes
StreamingYes
Key facts
- License
- cc-by-4.0 source
- Commercial use
- Yes sourceCC-BY-4.0 per HF metadata (repo gated); bundled voices have their own licenses (kyutai/tts-voices)
- Parameters
- 100M source
- Minimum memory
- Not stated by source
- Runs on CPU
- Yes sourceRuns on CPU using 2 cores; ~6x real-time on MacBook Air M4 (vendor figure)
- Streaming
- Yes source
- Voice cloning
- Yes source
- Languages
- en, fr, de, pt, it, es, nl source
- Released
- 2025-12-29 sourceHugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
- Gated on HF
- Yes accept terms on Hugging Face before downloading
Measured speed & memory
Benchmark pending. We haven't measured Pocket TTS yet. Planned targets: CPU (8 vCPU), Apple Silicon Mac, RTX-class consumer GPU and a rented cloud GPU. Get notified.
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