AnalysisOpinion / analysisLarge Language Models · Speech & Audio1 source · Oct 22, 2026

AuroraTTS-100K Releases!

It is an english text to speech model, which achieves mostly understandable speech in under 100K parameters.

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Key points

  • Quantized to INT8 it only takes up 127KB.
  • 72x real time on a CPU
  • Check out the model card for more info or to try it out yourself!
  • Questions, feedback, or criticism is welcome!

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  • [1]AuroraTTS-100K Releases!
    r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 22, 08:08 PM
    It is an english text to speech model, which achieves mostly understandable speech in under 100K parameters.
    Quantized to INT8 it only takes up 127KB.

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