It says MIT license but then readme has a separate section on prohibited use that maybe adds restrictions to make it nonfree? Not sure the legal implications here.
Oh this is sweet, thanks for sharing! I've been a huge fan of Kokoro and event setup my own fully-local voice assistant [1]. Will definitely give Pocket TTS a go!
I echo this. For a TTS system to be in any way useful outside the tiny population of the world that speaks exclusively English, it must be multilingual and dynamically switch between languages pretty much per word.
But it wouldn't be for those who "speak exclusively English", rather, for those who speak English. Not only that but it's also common to have system language set to English, even if one's language is different.
There's about 1.5B English speakers in the planet.
That's a pretty crazy requirement for something to be "useful" especially something that runs so efficiently on cpu. Many content creators from non-english speaking countries can benefit from this type of release by translating transcripts of their content to english and then running it through a model like this to dub their videos in a language that can reach many more people.
I love that everyone is making their own TTS model as they are not as expensive as many other models to train. Also there are plenty of different architecture.
>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
It says MIT license but then readme has a separate section on prohibited use that maybe adds restrictions to make it nonfree? Not sure the legal implications here.
[1] https://github.com/acatovic/ova
For voice cloning, pocket tts is walled so I can't tell
Cool tech demo though!
There's about 1.5B English speakers in the planet.
Just made it an MCP server so claude can tell me when it's done with something :)
https://github.com/Marviel/speak_when_done
Another recent example: https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertonic
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Supertone/supertonic-2
It seems like it is being trained by one person, and it is surprisingly natural for such a small model.
I remember when TTS always meant the most robotic, barely comprehensible voices.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qcusnt/soprano...
https://huggingface.co/ekwek/Soprano-1.1-80M