KittenTTS – 0.8.1
🚨 KittenTTS v0.8.1 is live! 🚨
The lightweight, GPU-free TTS powerhouse just dropped — and it’s packed with polish 🐾
🔹 Smarter voice control: New prosody & intonation tweaks for more natural speech (especially in multi-sentence flows).
🔹 Faster inference: ~15% speedup on CPU thanks to optimized ONNX runtime handling and quantization tweaks.
🔹 Better multilingual support: Improved phoneme handling for Spanish, French, and Japanese — less robotic “accent carryover”!
🔹 CLI & API upgrades: New `–speed` and `–pitch` flags for real-time control, plus cleaner JSON output in REST mode.
🔹 Bug fixes: Fixed crackling audio artifacts on Windows, and resolved memory leaks in long-form synthesis.
📦 Still under 25MB, still runs on your laptop’s CPU — no GPU required.
🔗 Grab it: https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/releases/tag/0.8.1
Let’s make AI voice actually accessible — one tiny, mighty model at a time 🎤✨