mlx-community/kitten-tts-micro-0.8

Kitten TTS Micro 0.8 (MLX)

This is an MLX conversion of the KittenTTS Micro 0.8 model.

Source

• Original model: KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8
• License: Apache-2.0

Usage

from mlx_audio.tts.utils import load_model
import soundfile as sf

model = load_model("mlx-community/kitten-tts-micro-0.8")

for out in model.generate("This model runs with MLX.", voice="Jasper"):
    sf.write("out.wav", out.audio, model.sample_rate)

Notes:

• phonemizer (espeak backend) is required for generate().
• Available voices: Bella, Jasper, Luna, Bruno, Rosie, Hugo, Kiki, Leo.

Conversion Details

• Converted from ONNX weights.
• Quantized ONNX weights were dequantized to float for MLX.