All models, by parameter count
Inflect-Nano-v2 English, one fixed synthetic voice 4.0M Apache 2.0 CPU yes ▶
Inflect-Nano-v2
English, one fixed synthetic voice
- Params
- 3,966,721 (vendor-stated; no safetensors index)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- English, one fixed synthetic voice
- Streaming
- No native streaming (punctuation-aware chunking)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- yes: RTF 0.0933, 10.72x real time (vendor, HF CPU Upgrade, 8 vCPU, 4 threads). Same repo reports RTF 0.6299 on a Ryzen 9 3900X
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; HF only, no pip package
Vaniq-Edge English, one fixed voice ~ 9.0M MIT * CPU yes ▶
Vaniq-Edge
English, one fixed voice
- Params
- ~9.0M (derived from model.pth at fp32; card claims 8.5M)
- License
- MIT weights; required espeak-ng phonemizer is GPL v3
- Languages
- English, one fixed voice
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- yes: RTF 0.262 on 1 core (vendor, CPU unnamed, published only as text inside a chart image)
- Quantized formats
- not published (the card advertises an ONNX export that is absent from the repo tree)
- Integration path
- DIY; HF only, no GitHub repo
Inflect-Micro-v2 English 9.4M Apache 2.0 CPU yes ▶
Inflect-Micro-v2
English
- Params
- 9,356,513 (vendor-stated; no safetensors index)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- English
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- yes: RTF 0.1593, 6.28x real time (vendor, HF CPU Upgrade, 8 vCPU, 4 threads)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; code. HF org is owensong, GitHub org is owenawsong
Kitten TTS English ~ 15.0M Apache 2.0 CPU yes output stream ▶
Kitten TTS
English
- Params
- 15M to 80M
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- English
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (chunked)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- yes
- Quantized formats
- ONNX (ships as ONNX)
- Integration path
- DIY; ONNX runs in-browser and on edge
Matcha-TTS English (LJSpeech single-speaker, VCTK 108 speakers) ~ 18.2M MIT CPU yes ▶
Matcha-TTS
English (LJSpeech single-speaker, VCTK 108 speakers)
- Params
- 18.2M acoustic model, excludes vocoder (paper)
- License
- MIT
- Languages
- English (LJSpeech single-speaker, VCTK 108 speakers)
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- yes: RTF 0.411 (community, sherpa-onnx, Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5, 4 threads; RTF 0.941 at 1 thread)
- Quantized formats
- ONNX (in-repo exporter, prebuilt via sherpa-onnx)
- Integration path
- DIY; first-class sherpa-onnx support for CPU and embedded
Matxa-TTS Catalan Catalan, 4 accents, 8 speakers ~ 20.9M GPL ▶
Matxa-TTS Catalan
Catalan, 4 accents, 8 speakers
- Restriction
- Copyleft, and commercial deployment needs separate voice-artist licensing
- Params
- ~20.9M (derived at fp32; no exact count published)
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Languages
- Catalan, 4 accents, 8 speakers
- Streaming
- No native streaming (non-autoregressive OT-CFM)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- ONNX end-to-end (single file, includes the vocoder)
- Integration path
- ONNX e2e, or PyTorch with a separate vocoder plus compiled espeak-ng. A v2 line under BSC-LT is apache-2.0
wfloat-tts 30.2M MIT ▶
wfloat-tts
- Params
- 30,219,888 (safetensors.total)
- License
- MIT
- Languages
- not published
- Streaming
- not published
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- First-party browser/WASM runtime (wfloat/wfloat-web) and React Native (wfloat/react-native-wfloat), both MIT
Lahja Arabic, Saudi dialect. Two voices across two repos 36.3M No grant * ▶
Lahja
Arabic, Saudi dialect. Two voices across two repos
- Restriction
- No license granted at all. No rights is worse than non-commercial
- Params
- 36,284,784 (safetensors.total)
- License
- none declared (cardData.license is null and the card states none)
- Languages
- Arabic, Saudi dialect. Two voices across two repos
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- Cleanest integration of any row here: plain Transformers VitsModel and AutoTokenizer, no external vocoder. The declared base repo returns 401, so lineage is not auditable
Coqui VITS LJSpeech English, single speaker, 22,050 Hz 36.3M Apache 2.0 * ▶
Coqui VITS LJSpeech
English, single speaker, 22,050 Hz
- Params
- 36,321,264 (measured from the release checkpoint; no published count)
- License
- "apache 2.0" (string from TTS/.models.json); toolkit code MPL-2.0
- Languages
- English, single speaker, 22,050 Hz
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- pip install coqui-tts (maintained idiap fork). Functionally overlapping with Piper, which is also VITS-based and ships ONNX
Ukrainian TTS Ukrainian, 5 voices, automatic stress marking 40.7M MIT ▶
Ukrainian TTS
Ukrainian, 5 voices, automatic stress marking
- Params
- 40,685,869 generator (measured; the 446 MB checkpoint also carries 70,711,277 training-only discriminator params)
- License
- MIT
- Languages
- Ukrainian, 5 voices, automatic stress marking
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- pip install from GitHub. Released v6.0.0 is Tacotron2 + HiFi-GAN joint despite the repo name, frozen 2023-09-17; current work is on an unreleased branch
Coqui YourTTS 3: en, fr-fr, pt-br. 38 released speaker embeddings, 16 kHz output 48.1M Non-commercial ▶
Coqui YourTTS
3: en, fr-fr, pt-br. 38 released speaker embeddings, 16 kHz output
- Restriction
- Non-commercial and no-derivatives (NoDerivatives arguably bars fine-tuning)
- Params
- 48,123,087 inference path (measured; the full state dict includes a training-only discriminator)
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 weights, MPL-2.0 toolkit code
- Languages
- 3: en, fr-fr, pt-br. 38 released speaker embeddings, 16 kHz output
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- pip install coqui-tts (idiap fork). Weights frozen 2022-03-23; 16 kHz output is behind Kokoro and Piper
Style-Bert-VITS2 Japanese (JP-Extra line); the older v2.x line is ja, zh, en 62.8M AGPL ▶
Style-Bert-VITS2
Japanese (JP-Extra line); the older v2.x line is ja, zh, en
- Restriction
- AGPL-3.0 network copyleft: serving a hosted voice agent triggers source disclosure
- Params
- 62,756,658 (measured); the mandatory JP-Extra DeBERTa front end adds 329,601,020
- License
- AGPL-3.0 code, CC-BY-SA-4.0 weights, LGPL-3.0 for the text and user dictionary
- Languages
- Japanese (JP-Extra line); the older v2.x line is ja, zh, en
- Streaming
- No native streaming (no chunk or yield path)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- ONNX export script (v2.7.0+); no GGUF or int8
- Integration path
- pip install style-bert-vits2; Gradio app and HTTP server. Code active to 2025-12-07, weights frozen 2024-02-05
IMS-Toucan 471 supervised, ~7,200 zero-shot via language embeddings 81.6M Apache 2.0 ▶
IMS-Toucan
471 supervised, ~7,200 zero-shot via language embeddings
- Params
- 81,563,686 full pipeline (measured: ToucanTTS 50,097,950 + vocoder 31,167,362 + embedding GAN 298,374)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- 471 supervised, ~7,200 zero-shot via language embeddings
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- Clone and pip install, no package; needs espeak-ng. Zero-shot language lookups add ~3.75 GB beyond the weights
Kokoro 8 languages, 54 voices ~ 82.0M Apache 2.0 CPU yes output stream ▶
Kokoro
8 languages, 54 voices
- Params
- 82M
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- 8 languages, 54 voices
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (chunked)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published (community reports sub-second full-utterance on CPU; hardware varies)
- CPU real-time
- yes
- Quantized formats
- ONNX community exports
- Integration path
- Pipecat service available; community LiveKit wrappers; verify plugin freshness
Supertonic 3 31, plus a language-neutral mode ~ 99.0M OpenRAIL CPU yes ▶
Supertonic 3
31, plus a language-neutral mode
- Restriction
- OpenRAIL use restrictions that pass to every downstream user, and the project has announced archival
- Params
- ~99M (README prose only; ONNX assets, no safetensors index)
- License
- BigScience Open RAIL-M weights (cardData says the bare string "openrail"), MIT code
- Languages
- 31, plus a language-neutral mode
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- yes: average RTF 0.3 (vendor, Onyx Boox Go 6 e-reader, ARM CPU, airplane mode)
- Quantized formats
- ONNX fp32 only; community int8 and fp16 via supertonic-mnn
- Integration path
- Official Python SDK and serve command; ONNX Runtime examples in 11 languages. Community pipecat-supertonic plugin, explicitly unsupported. Archival announced 2026-07-23, Voice Builder retires 2026-08-31
Kyutai Pocket TTS 6 (en, fr, de, pt, it, es; non-English as 24-layer preview variants) ~ 118M CC-BY-4.0 CPU yes output stream TTFB gated ▶
Kyutai Pocket TTS
6 (en, fr, de, pt, it, es; non-English as 24-layer preview variants)
- Params
- ~118M default checkpoint (derived at bf16; README says 100M; 24-layer language variants reach ~336M)
- License
- CC-BY-4.0 weights (per-voice terms vary, see kyutai/tts-voices), MIT code
- Languages
- 6 (en, fr, de, pt, it, es; non-English as 24-layer preview variants)
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (chunked)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- ~200 ms to first chunk (vendor, hardware unspecified; the MacBook Air M4 in the README attaches to the throughput claim, not this one)
- CPU real-time
- yes: ~6x real time (vendor, MacBook Air M4, 2 cores)
- Quantized formats
- Runtime int8 via torchao, no distributed artifact. Community ONNX, MLX, Candle, sherpa-onnx
- Integration path
- Pipecat first-party extra (pipecat-ai[pocket-tts]); own serve command; sherpa-onnx. No LiveKit plugin. HF repo is gated (auto): terms acceptance and a token required
DhVaani-0.5 26 Indian languages + English 123M Apache 2.0 gated ▶
DhVaani-0.5
26 Indian languages + English
- Params
- 122,798,800 (safetensors.total)
- License
- Apache 2.0 (inherited from the ZipVoice base per the card)
- Languages
- 26 Indian languages + English
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; ZipVoice derivative, vendors its own backend. Needs a 3 s to 10 s reference clip plus transcript. HF gated (auto)
ZipVoice Chinese, English ~ 123M No grant * CPU no ▶
ZipVoice
Chinese, English
- Restriction
- Weights carry no license grant at all; commercial reuse is legally undefined
- Params
- 123M (README and paper, corroborated by the fp32 file size; no safetensors index)
- License
- Code Apache-2.0. Weights: no license key in cardData and none in the README frontmatter
- Languages
- Chinese, English
- Streaming
- No native streaming (punctuation chunking then batching)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no: best case RTF 1.22, distilled at 4 NFE, single thread (vendor, Intel Xeon Platinum 8457C)
- Quantized formats
- ONNX fp32 and INT8 in-repo for the base and distill checkpoints
- Integration path
- Two first-party deployment paths: sherpa-onnx C++ on CPU, and an NVIDIA Triton runtime
VieNeu-TTS v3 Turbo Vietnamese, English, vi-en code-switching 131M Apache 2.0 CPU yes output stream TTFB ▶
VieNeu-TTS v3 Turbo
Vietnamese, English, vi-en code-switching
- Params
- 130,907,520 (safetensors.total)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- Vietnamese, English, vi-en code-switching
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (frame-level, ONNX/CPU path only)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- ~300 ms to first audio (vendor, hardware unspecified)
- CPU real-time
- yes: RTF < 1, ~2-3x on a laptop (vendor, CPU unnamed)
- Quantized formats
- ONNX fp32 and ONNX INT8 in-repo (the CPU backbone runs int8 by default)
- Integration path
- DIY; vieneu on PyPI, FastAPI streaming demo. Hard dependency on the author's sea-g2p
ArTST Arabic (Classical, via ClArTTS) 144M Non-commercial ▶
ArTST
Arabic (Classical, via ClArTTS)
- Restriction
- Non-commercial
- Params
- 144,481,358 (derived at fp32; no safetensors index)
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Languages
- Arabic (Classical, via ClArTTS)
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- Transformers, but needs speecht5_hifigan plus x-vector speaker embeddings. Heaviest integration in this table
SILMA TTS v1 Arabic and English, zero-shot cloning ~ 150M Apache 2.0 ▶
SILMA TTS v1
Arabic and English, zero-shot cloning
- Params
- ~150M (vendor blog; config is the F5-TTS Small DiT. The 2.6 GB model.pt is a training checkpoint with EMA and optimizer state)
- License
- Apache 2.0 weights, MIT code
- Languages
- Arabic and English, zero-shot cloning
- Streaming
- No native streaming (CFM decoder)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published (GPU only: RTF ~0.12, vendor, RTX 4090)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- pip install silma-tts; Gradio app. Vocos vocoder pulled from the hub
Freya-TTS Turkish, single fixed speaker, no cloning 183M Apache 2.0 ▶
Freya-TTS
Turkish, single fixed speaker, no cloning
- Params
- 183,198,145 (safetensors.total)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- Turkish, single fixed speaker, no cloning
- Streaming
- No native streaming (32-step Euler ODE over the whole utterance)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; github.com/freyavoiceai/FreyaTTS, install from source. There is no "-small" variant; the org ships one checkpoint
hindi-tts-190M Hindi, one fixed reference voice (swappable) 190M MIT CPU no ▶
hindi-tts-190M
Hindi, one fixed reference voice (swappable)
- Params
- ~190,178,332 (derived from the fp32 EMA checkpoint) + bundled Vocos ~13.6M
- License
- MIT (IndicF5 / F5-TTS derivative; upstream terms also apply)
- Languages
- Hindi, one fixed reference voice (swappable)
- Streaming
- No native streaming (flow matching, NFE 32)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no: RTF 3.13 median, 3.13x slower than real time (vendor eval, Apple M4 16 GB, MPS, fp32, NFE 32). No CPU figure published
- Quantized formats
- not published (fp32 only)
- Integration path
- Weak: no pip package and no GitHub repo. Inference code must be vendored out of the author's Gradio Space
Chatterbox-Nano English (the 23-language list on the card belongs to Chatterbox-Multilingual) 217M MIT CPU yes ▶
Chatterbox-Nano
English (the 23-language list on the card belongs to Chatterbox-Multilingual)
- Params
- 217,471,139 T3 backbone (reconciled from the fp32 weight file); ~483.0M with s3gen and the voice encoder. The card's "110M" is wrong by ~2x against its own file
- License
- MIT
- Languages
- English (the 23-language list on the card belongs to Chatterbox-Multilingual)
- Streaming
- No native streaming in the official repo
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published (the sub-200 ms figure on the card is Resemble's paid hosted service)
- CPU real-time
- yes: 3x real time on 8 cores (vendor, CPU model and thread policy unspecified)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY from GitHub source only: the PyPI package has no nano path. Perth watermarking built in. livekit-plugins-resemble and Pipecat resembleai target the hosted API, not these weights
NeuTTS Nano English, plus official German, Spanish and French checkpoints 229M Revenue-capped ▶
NeuTTS Nano
English, plus official German, Spanish and French checkpoints
- Restriction
- Revenue cap: a commercial license is required above $5,000,000 annual revenue
- Params
- 228,704,832 (safetensors.total)
- License
- NeuTTS Open License v1.0 (cardData says only "other", so the restriction is invisible from card metadata)
- Languages
- English, plus official German, Spanish and French checkpoints
- Streaming
- not published
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published (vendor publishes Q4_0 llama-bench tokens/s only, codec excluded, no RTF)
- Quantized formats
- GGUF Q4 and Q8, first-party, for every language checkpoint
- Integration path
- DIY; the neutts package with llama-cpp-python
NeuTTS-2E English. 4 fixed speakers, 7 emotions, no cloning 236M Revenue-capped CPU borderline output stream ▶
NeuTTS-2E
English. 4 fixed speakers, 7 emotions, no cloning
- Restriction
- Revenue cap: a commercial license is required above $5,000,000 annual revenue
- Params
- 236,039,680 (safetensors.total; ~125M active)
- License
- NeuTTS Open License v1.0 weights, Apache-2.0 code
- Languages
- English. 4 fixed speakers, 7 emotions, no cloning
- Streaming
- Output-streaming, GGUF path only
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- borderline: every published CPU number is Q4_0, measured on sibling checkpoints, and excludes the codec (vendor, AMD Ryzen 9 HX 370 and iMac M4, llama-bench)
- Quantized formats
- GGUF Q4 and Q8 (first-party); first-party ONNX codec decoders including int8
- Integration path
- DIY. livekit-plugins-neuphonic and Pipecat neuphonic wrap the hosted cloud API, not these weights
Vosk-TTS ru 0.10-multi Russian, 57 speakers ~ 237M Apache 2.0 CPU yes ▶
Vosk-TTS ru 0.10-multi
Russian, 57 speakers
- Params
- ~236.7M (derived: ~58.7M TTS ONNX + 178M ruBert-base front end)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- Russian, 57 speakers
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- yes: xRT 0.35 (vendor, hardware unspecified; README inside the model zip)
- Quantized formats
- ONNX (the only shipped format; no int8 variant)
- Integration path
- pip install vosk-tts, plus CLI and a server directory. Pure CPU, fully offline. Despite the name it is a DiT diffusion model, not VITS
ChatTTS English, Chinese ~ 304M Non-commercial CPU no output stream ▶
ChatTTS
English, Chinese
- Restriction
- Non-commercial weights and AGPL-3.0 code (copyleft, relevant if linked into a service)
- Params
- ~304.4M (measured across five fp32 shards; no aggregate safetensors index)
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0 weights, AGPL-3.0 code
- Languages
- English, Chinese
- Streaming
- Output-streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no (>=4 GB VRAM stated; the only published figure is RTF ~0.3 on a 4090)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; Python API and bundled WebUI. The authors deliberately degraded fidelity in training to deter misuse, which is a hard quality ceiling. Weights frozen 2024-10-22
Vui Nano English ~ 305M Unresolved * CPU no sentence stream ▶
Vui Nano
English
- Restriction
- License unresolved upstream. Do not assert Apache 2.0 on the weights
- Params
- ~305M (derived at fp16; no safetensors index)
- License
- GitHub license detection returns NOASSERTION and the two READMEs contradict each other on whether Apache 2.0 covers the weights. The codec and speaker encoder are Alibaba property under the Qwen3-TTS terms
- Languages
- English
- Streaming
- Sentence-level (WebRTC and WebSocket with backpressure)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no (GPU required, ~12 GB VRAM for the full assistant stack)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- Ships an OpenAI Realtime API compatible server, so it drops into any client speaking that protocol. Weights live under the different HF org slug fluxions
VoiceCraft giga330M English 323M Non-commercial * CPU no ▶
VoiceCraft giga330M
English
- Restriction
- Non-commercial, both halves
- Params
- 323,434,522 (safetensors.total; "330M" is a repo name)
- License
- Coqui Public Model License 1.0.0 weights, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 code. The parent repo's cardData contradicts LICENSE-MODEL; the per-checkpoint repos carry no license key at all
- Languages
- English
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no (no CPU path or benchmark; CUDA-oriented throughout)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; Gradio app and notebooks. Prompt plus generation capped at 16 s on the TTS-finetuned checkpoint. Weight repos frozen 2024
Plapre Nano v2 Danish 335M CC-BY-4.0 * CPU no sentence stream ▶
Plapre Nano v2
Danish
- Params
- 335,010,240 (safetensors.total)
- License
- CC-BY-4.0 (model card only; the GitHub repo has no LICENSE file)
- Languages
- Danish
- Streaming
- Sentence-level (raw 24 kHz PCM, chunked transfer)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no (CUDA GPU required; vLLM pinned to >=0.15,<0.16)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; OpenAI-shaped /v1/audio/speech via plapre-serve. The Kanade tokenizer is a separate ~400 MiB GPU-resident dependency
F5-TTS English, Mandarin, with code-switching ~ 336M Non-commercial CPU no ▶
F5-TTS
English, Mandarin, with code-switching
- Restriction
- Non-commercial weights (inherited from the Emilia training set, so unlikely to be relaxed)
- Params
- 335.8M (paper; no safetensors index)
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0 weights, MIT code
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, with code-switching
- Streaming
- No native streaming (chunk inference is text splitting)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published (the 253 ms figure is full-utterance request latency under Triton + TensorRT-LLM: vendor, one NVIDIA L20)
- CPU real-time
- no (every first-party benchmark is L20 GPU; 16 to 32 NFE steps plus a separate vocoder)
- Quantized formats
- No official GGUF or ONNX; in-repo TensorRT-LLM engine recipe
- Integration path
- Most production-ready path in this table: PyPI package, CLI, Gradio, GHCR image, in-repo Triton runtime. Vocos vocoder is a separate dependency
Raon-OpenTTS-0.3B English, 16 kHz output ~ 336M Non-commercial ▶
Raon-OpenTTS-0.3B
English, 16 kHz output
- Restriction
- Non-commercial weights
- Params
- 336M (model-card prose only; safetensors is null)
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0 weights, Apache-2.0 code
- Languages
- English, 16 kHz output
- Streaming
- No native streaming (F5-TTS style flow-matching DiT)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; F5-TTS-compatible code plus a separately fetched HiFi-GAN. The only downloadable artifact is a 5.4 GB raw training checkpoint with no safetensors and no config.json
IndicF5 11 Indian languages 351M MIT * gated ▶
IndicF5
11 Indian languages
- Params
- 350,681,834 (safetensors.total)
- License
- MIT (HF card only; the GitHub repo ships no LICENSE file)
- Languages
- 11 Indian languages
- Streaming
- No native streaming (flow matching)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; Transformers with trust_remote_code. Needs a reference clip plus its transcript on every call; Vocos vocoder pulled at runtime. HF gated (auto)
NVIDIA Magpie TTS Multilingual 357M 12: ar, de, en, es, fr, hi, it, ja, ko, pt, vi, zh. 5 fixed English voices, cloning removed in this release ~ 364M NVIDIA OML ▶
NVIDIA Magpie TTS Multilingual 357M
12: ar, de, en, es, fr, hi, it, ja, ko, pt, vi, zh. 5 fixed English voices, cloning removed in this release
- Restriction
- NVIDIA Open Model License: commercial use permitted but with attribution, Trustworthy AI compliance and automatic termination. The card also carries a non-commercial-only checkbox that contradicts the license label
- Params
- 364M (card prose; the repo name says 357m; safetensors is null so no authoritative count exists)
- License
- NVIDIA Open Model License
- Languages
- 12: ar, de, en, es, fr, hi, it, ja, ko, pt, vi, zh. 5 fixed English voices, cloning removed in this release
- Streaming
- No native streaming (standard mode caps at 20 s; long-form is a sliding window)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- f16 GGUF, first-party, but built from an older revision than the .nemo
- Integration path
- NeMo Speech for the .nemo, NeMo-Speech.cpp for the GGUF. No safetensors and no Transformers-compatible files. livekit-plugins-nvidia and Pipecat nvidia target Riva/NIM. NanoCodec is a separate download
Marvis-TTS-100m-v0.2 English, French, German 368M Apache 2.0 CPU borderline output stream ▶
Marvis-TTS-100m-v0.2
English, French, German
- Params
- 368,273,408 (safetensors.total; 100M backbone + 60M decoder + bundled Mimi codec)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- English, French, German
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (chunked)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- borderline (MLX on Apple Silicon GPU; no CPU RTF published)
- Quantized formats
- MLX 6-bit, 8-bit (first-party sibling repos)
- Integration path
- DIY; mlx-audio or Transformers
KaniTTS 400m-en English; the sibling kani-tts-370m covers en, de, ar, zh, es, ko 370M Revenue-capped CPU no output stream TTFB ▶
KaniTTS 400m-en
English; the sibling kani-tts-370m covers en, de, ar, zh, es, ko
- Restriction
- Revenue cap: a commercial license is required above $10,000,000 annual revenue
- Params
- 369,847,040 (safetensors.total; the repo name rounds up)
- License
- LFM Open License v1.0 weights (cardData says only "other"), Apache-2.0 code, NVIDIA Open Model License on the required NanoCodec
- Languages
- English; the sibling kani-tts-370m covers en, de, ar, zh, es, ko
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (SSE) via the separate kanitts-vllm server
- TTFB / first-chunk
- first chunk <300 ms in streaming mode (vendor, RTX 5090, vLLM; stated as an upper bound, not a measured percentile)
- CPU real-time
- no (all published figures are GPU; the slowest is RTF 0.600 on an RTX 3060)
- Quantized formats
- MLX and MLX 8-bit (vendor); community GGUF
- Integration path
- kanitts-vllm exposes OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech, drivable from Pipecat or LiveKit OpenAI TTS clients
KaniTTS-2-en English 370M Revenue-capped * CPU no output stream ▶
KaniTTS-2-en
English
- Restriction
- Revenue cap: a commercial license is required above $10,000,000 annual revenue
- Params
- 369,977,088 (safetensors.total; the card claims 400M)
- License
- LFM Open License v1.0 weights; the kani-tts-2 code repo has no LICENSE file; NVIDIA OML on the NanoCodec
- Languages
- English
- Streaming
- Output-streaming via the separate OpenAI-compatible server
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no: ~20 s to 60 s for 10 s of audio (vendor, self-described as not production-ready)
- Quantized formats
- Community only: GGUF, MLX, bitsandbytes 4-bit
- Integration path
- DIY; PyPI package plus the vendor server. Requires pinned nemo-toolkit and transformers versions
VietTTS Vietnamese 440M Non-commercial ▶
VietTTS
Vietnamese
- Restriction
- Non-commercial weights
- Params
- 440,482,096 core (measured: llm 315,146,753 + flow 104,874,752 + hift 20,460,591)
- License
- CC BY-NC weights (cardData is the bare string "cc"), Apache-2.0 code
- Languages
- Vietnamese
- Streaming
- No true incremental synthesis (the streaming response is chunked HTTP delivery of a finished WAV)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- Best integration path in this table: OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech, /v1/voices, Docker and docker-compose, plus a CLI. Last substantive commit 2024-12-12
MegaTTS 3 Chinese, English, code-switching ~ 450M Apache 2.0 CPU no ▶
MegaTTS 3
Chinese, English, code-switching
- Params
- 0.45B diffusion transformer backbone (the full download is ~1.31B across 5 components)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- Chinese, English, code-switching
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no: ~30 s for 10 inference steps (vendor, hardware not named)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; Gradio demo and inference script. The WaveVAE encoder is deliberately withheld, so cloning a new speaker requires submitting a clip to ByteDance and waiting for a published latent
VoXtream2 English 463M CC-BY-4.0 * CPU no dual stream TTFB ▶
VoXtream2
English
- Params
- 462,870,528 (safetensors.total); + Kyutai Mimi codec 96,151,393 at runtime
- License
- CC-BY-4.0 weights. Code license is contradictory: GitHub API says Apache-2.0, the README says MIT
- Languages
- English
- Streaming
- Dual-streaming (word-by-word text in, 80 ms audio chunks out)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- v1: 102 ms first packet (vendor, A100, compiled, FP16) and 123 ms (vendor, RTX 3090, compiled). v2 claims 74 ms with no hardware named
- CPU real-time
- no: ~2.2 GB VRAM, no CPU mode documented
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- pip install voxtream; CLI, Python generator, WebSocket server, Gradio. Needs espeak-ng. Reuses the Sesame CSM depth transformer (architectural reuse, not a fine-tune)
GPT-SoVITS v4 Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese ~ 491M MIT output stream ▶
GPT-SoVITS v4
Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese
- Params
- ~491M model (derived: SoVITS ~384.5M + GPT ~77.6M + vocoder ~28.9M; no published count). The mandatory roberta and HuBERT front ends add ~420M more
- License
- MIT (code and weights)
- Languages
- Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (chunked, api_v2.py, 4 quality/latency levels)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published for v4 (the RTF 0.526 figure is published for v2 ProPlus only: vendor, Apple M4 CPU)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; in-repo FastAPI server with a chunked streaming endpoint, plus Gradio WebUI. Upstream now positions v2Pro as surpassing v4 at lower cost
Chatterbox 23 languages (Multilingual v3) ~ 500M MIT CPU borderline output stream TTFB ▶
Chatterbox
23 languages (Multilingual v3)
- Params
- ~0.5B
- License
- MIT (code and weights)
- Languages
- 23 languages (Multilingual v3)
- Streaming
- Output-streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- low latency claimed for Turbo variant (vendor; hardware unspecified)
- CPU real-time
- borderline
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- Community wrappers; built-in PerTh watermarking
CosyVoice 2 Zh, En, + others; cross-lingual mode ~ 500M Apache 2.0 CPU no dual stream TTFB ▶
CosyVoice 2
Zh, En, + others; cross-lingual mode
- Params
- 0.5B
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- Zh, En, + others; cross-lingual mode
- Streaming
- Dual-capable chunk-aware streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- ~150 ms first-chunk (vendor paper; GPU)
- CPU real-time
- no
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- Community wrappers. The old FunAudioLLM GitHub org was renamed; that URL now redirects
spark-tts-salt 7 East African: Acholi, Ateso, Ugandan English, Luganda, Lugbara, Runyankore, Swahili 507M Non-commercial * output stream gated ▶
spark-tts-salt
7 East African: Acholi, Ateso, Ugandan English, Luganda, Lugbara, Runyankore, Swahili
- Restriction
- The declared MIT grant is invalid: derived from CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 base weights, and the required BiCodec is also NC-SA. ShareAlike cannot be relicensed downstream
- Params
- 506,634,112 (safetensors.total), LLM only
- License
- Declares mit. Both the declared base and the original upstream are cc-by-nc-sa-4.0. Effective runtime license is NC-SA
- Languages
- 7 East African: Acholi, Ateso, Ugandan English, Luganda, Lugbara, Runyankore, Swahili
- Streaming
- Output-streaming only via the upstream Triton runtime; this repo ships no streaming code
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- Requires cloning the upstream Spark-TTS for the BiCodec encode and decode path: this repo ships the LLM only and cannot synthesize standalone. HF gated (auto)
Gepard-1.0 en-US, en-GB, es-MX, pt-BR, nl-NL 556M Apache 2.0 * CPU no output stream TTFB ▶
Gepard-1.0
en-US, en-GB, es-MX, pt-BR, nl-NL
- Params
- 555,694,169 (safetensors.total)
- License
- Apache 2.0, but the pipeline requires the NVIDIA NeMo NanoCodec under the NVIDIA Open Model License
- Languages
- en-US, en-GB, es-MX, pt-BR, nl-NL
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (chunked, vLLM)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- ~50 ms TTFA (vendor, single RTX 5090, served on vLLM; ~25x real time)
- CPU real-time
- no (CUDA + vLLM required)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; gepard-inference. The hosted API is Cartesia-wire-compatible; the self-hosted weights are not
Marvis-TTS-250m-v0.2 English, French, German 569M Apache 2.0 CPU borderline output stream ▶
Marvis-TTS-250m-v0.2
English, French, German
- Params
- 568,866,816 (safetensors.total; 250M backbone + 60M decoder + bundled Mimi codec)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- English, French, German
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (chunked)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- borderline (MLX on Apple Silicon GPU; no CPU RTF published)
- Quantized formats
- MLX 4-bit, 6-bit, 8-bit (first-party sibling repos)
- Integration path
- DIY; mlx-audio or Transformers CsmForConditionalGeneration. Cloning via a reference clip
Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b 11: yue, zh, nl, en, fr, de, it, ja, ko, pl, es 601M Apache 2.0 output stream ▶
Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b
11: yue, zh, nl, en, fr, de, it, ja, ko, pl, es
- Params
- 601,159,424 backbone (safetensors.total); bundled codec ~337.4M is unverified (pickle with no index)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- 11: yue, zh, nl, en, fr, de, it, ja, ko, pl, es
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (SSE, ~0.56 s per chunk)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published (the published figure is warm p50 end-to-end 0.691 s, RTF 0.116: vendor, one NVIDIA H20)
- CPU real-time
- not published (an INT4 ONNX Runtime CPU path is documented with no RTF attached)
- Quantized formats
- ONNX INT4 (vendor). The MLX build is community, not first-party
- Integration path
- The SGLang Omni adapter serves OpenAI-shaped /v1/audio/speech with SSE, so it drives from LiveKit or Pipecat OpenAI TTS clients
OuteTTS-1.0-0.6B 14 602M Apache 2.0 ▶
OuteTTS-1.0-0.6B
14
- Params
- 602,013,696 (safetensors.total)
- License
- Apache 2.0. The IBM Research DAC.speech.v1.0 codec has its own license
- Languages
- 14
- Streaming
- No native streaming (chunked and batch modes split text, they do not emit audio incrementally)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published (a llama.cpp CPU path is documented, no CPU RTF from vendor or community)
- Quantized formats
- GGUF, ONNX, FP8, EXL2 (all first-party); community MLX
- Integration path
- DIY via the outetts package (Transformers, llama.cpp, ExLlamaV2, vLLM backends). Do not substitute Llama-OuteTTS-1.0-1B: 1,248,397,312 params and CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Indic-Mio 22 scheduled Indian languages + English 609M Apache 2.0 CPU no ▶
Indic-Mio
22 scheduled Indian languages + English
- Params
- 608,894,976 (safetensors.total)
- License
- Apache 2.0. The required MioCodec is Aratako/MioCodec-25Hz-24kHz, third-party, MIT
- Languages
- 22 scheduled Indian languages + English
- Streaming
- not published
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no (both documented paths are vLLM or Transformers with device_map cuda)
- Quantized formats
- not published (community MLX fp16)
- Integration path
- DIY; vllm serve plus the community MioTTS-Inference server. Derivative of MioTTS-0.6B
MioTTS-0.6B English, Japanese 609M Apache 2.0 ▶
MioTTS-0.6B
English, Japanese
- Params
- 608,894,976 (safetensors.total)
- License
- Apache 2.0 (the GGUF sibling repo declares "other"). Bundled reference-voice presets are not licensed for commercial use: supply your own reference audio
- Languages
- English, Japanese
- Streaming
- No native audio streaming (LM token streaming works via OpenAI-compatible servers; codec decode is not incremental)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- GGUF BF16, Q8_0, Q6_K, Q4_K_M (first-party, Aratako/MioTTS-GGUF)
- Integration path
- Low friction: the LM is an ordinary causal LM, so it serves from vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama or SGLang, plus the MIT MioTTS-Inference wrapper
OmniVoice 600+ 613M Non-commercial ▶
OmniVoice
600+
- Restriction
- Non-commercial weights (inherited from Emilia), stated only in the README. High-traffic community GGUF and MLX mirrors are mistagged apache-2.0, so downstream users believe they hold a commercial license they do not
- Params
- 612,577,288 (safetensors.total) + a required 201,400,553 audio tokenizer
- License
- CC-BY-NC weights per README prose; cardData.license is null. Code Apache-2.0
- Languages
- 600+
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published (the README claims RTF as low as 0.025 with no hardware named, so it is not publishable as a number)
- Quantized formats
- Community: MLX 4-bit, 8-bit, bfloat16; LiteRT conversions. An official ONNX export is an open feature request
- Integration path
- pip install omnivoice. Deep community ecosystem: vLLM-Omni, RealtimeTTS, audio.cpp, mlx-audio, an OpenAI-compatible shim. The highest-traffic sub-1B open TTS model found in this sweep
Malaysian-TTS-0.6B-v1 Malay, English, Singlish; 7 voices 629M No grant * ▶
Malaysian-TTS-0.6B-v1
Malay, English, Singlish; 7 voices
- Restriction
- No license stated anywhere. No rights granted, and the required DistilCodec detokenizer is separately CC-BY-NC-4.0, so the pipeline is non-commercial regardless
- Params
- 629,342,208 (safetensors.total), LM only
- License
- none (cardData.license is null, no license tag, no LICENSE file); training and inference code MIT; required codec CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Languages
- Malay, English, Singlish; 7 voices
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; Transformers plus a manual DistilCodec install and a manual fetch of two codec files. Not runnable standalone. Requires upstream text normalization. Its pipeline_tag is text-generation, so it does not appear in HF TTS listings
VoxCPM-0.5B Chinese, English ~ 652M Apache 2.0 CPU no output stream ▶
VoxCPM-0.5B
Chinese, English
- Params
- ~652M core (derived at bfloat16) + a 301 MB AudioVAE. "0.5B" is the MiniCPM-4-0.5B backbone name, not a measurement
- License
- Apache 2.0 (weights and code, explicitly)
- Languages
- Chinese, English
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (generate_streaming)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no (CUDA >= 12.0; the device is hardcoded to cuda in config)
- Quantized formats
- not published (community GGUF, ONNX, RKNN2, CoreML)
- Integration path
- DIY; the voxcpm package and CLI. Superseded upstream: the repo now tracks VoxCPM2 (2B, over the line) and this checkpoint has not moved since 2025-09-19
NeuTTS Air English 748M Apache 2.0 * CPU yes output stream ▶
NeuTTS Air
English
- Params
- 747,930,496 (safetensors.total)
- License
- Apache 2.0. Note the newer neutts-2e and neutts-nano siblings moved to a revenue-capped license; Air did not
- Languages
- English
- Streaming
- Output-streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- yes (GGUF on-device is the design target)
- Quantized formats
- GGUF
- Integration path
- DIY; built for edge
Irodori-TTS-v4-Small Japanese 766M MIT ▶
Irodori-TTS-v4-Small
Japanese
- Params
- 766,052,385 (safetensors.total; the 3.06 GB download is fp32 storage, not a 3B model. The HF widget rounds to 0.8B)
- License
- MIT (weights and code)
- Languages
- Japanese
- Streaming
- No native streaming (duration predictor then whole-utterance rectified-flow DiT)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published (cpu-only and macOS MPS install extras exist; no RTF on any hardware)
- Quantized formats
- torchao INT8, INT4, FP8 (vendor, separate repo)
- Integration path
- DIY; PyPI package. Requires the separate Semantic-DACVAE-Japanese-32dim codec. SilentCipher watermark applied when the dependency is present
Kyutai TTS 0.75B English ~ 780M CC-BY-4.0 CPU no dual stream ▶
Kyutai TTS 0.75B
English
- Params
- ~780M (derived at bf16; the "750M" is name-derived, no safetensors index). Mimi tokenizer is a separate ~192M checkpoint
- License
- CC-BY-4.0 weights. Code is dual: MIT for the Python parts, Apache-2.0 for the Rust backend
- Languages
- English
- Streaming
- Dual: text consumed incrementally, audio shifted 16 steps (1.28 s) at 12.5 Hz
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published for this checkpoint (the 220 ms figure belongs to Kyutai's 2B-class announcement model)
- CPU real-time
- no (PyTorch/CUDA, Rust CUDA server, or MLX on Apple Silicon)
- Quantized formats
- No artifact; MLX runtime quantize flags only
- Integration path
- DIY; the moshi package, a Rust websocket server, MLX scripts. Community LiveKit plugin only, no Pipecat service
Sarashina2.2-TTS Japanese primary, English secondary, code-switching 810M Non-commercial CPU no ▶
Sarashina2.2-TTS
Japanese primary, English secondary, code-switching
- Restriction
- Non-commercial, plus a mandatory inaudible watermark on every output, a name prefix on derivatives, an attribution notice, and a licensor right to revise the terms after download
- Params
- 809,908,480 LM (safetensors.total); flow, hift and campplus add ~140M more
- License
- Sarashina Model NonCommercial License Agreement v2.0 (LICENSE file text; cardData.license is null, so HF facet search will not surface it)
- Languages
- Japanese primary, English secondary, code-switching
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no (GPU required; ~6 GB VRAM on the Transformers backend)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- Well packaged: pip-installable, Gradio UI, Dockerfile, optional vLLM backend. HF only, no GitHub repo
VoiceCraft giga830M English 840M Non-commercial CPU no ▶
VoiceCraft giga830M
English
- Restriction
- Non-commercial, both halves
- Params
- 839,565,338 (safetensors.total; "830M" is a repo name)
- License
- Coqui Public Model License 1.0.0 weights, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 code. This repo carries no license key in cardData
- Languages
- English
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; Gradio app and notebooks. Frozen 2024-04-16
Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512 9 + 18 Chinese dialects ~ 859M Apache 2.0 dual stream TTFB ▶
Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512
9 + 18 Chinese dialects
- Params
- ~859M (derived: llm ~506M + flow ~332M + hift ~21M at fp32; "0.5B" describes the LLM only)
- License
- Apache 2.0 (weights and code)
- Languages
- 9 + 18 Chinese dialects
- Streaming
- Dual-capable: text-in streaming and audio-out streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- ~150 ms (vendor card, hardware unspecified)
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published (the in-repo ONNX files are fp32 pipeline components)
- Integration path
- DIY via QwenAudio/CosyVoice, vLLM supported. Pipecat's funasr service is FunAudioLLM ASR, not this
OpenAudio S1-mini 13 868M Non-commercial gated ▶
OpenAudio S1-mini
13
- Restriction
- Non-commercial
- Params
- 867,561,487 (derived from model.pth at bf16; the vendor's "0.5B" is off by ~74 percent). The required codec adds an undetermined amount
- License
- cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 on the HF card; the fish-speech README instead names the "Fish Audio Research License". Both non-commercial
- Languages
- 13
- Streaming
- not published for S1-mini (the SGLang streaming work is scoped to S2-Pro)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published (the ~100 ms TTFA figure is S2-Pro 4B on an H200)
- CPU real-time
- not published
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY via fish-speech. HF gated (auto) with a non-commercial acknowledgment checkbox. LiveKit's Fish Audio plugin and Pipecat fish target the hosted cloud API
Parler-TTS Mini English ~ 880M Apache 2.0 CPU no output stream ▶
Parler-TTS Mini
English
- Params
- 880M
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- English
- Streaming
- Output-streaming supported
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; HF Transformers native. Rule 5 flag: checkpoint frozen 2024, repo last pushed 2024-12-10 with no maintainer commits since. Archive candidate
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice 10; 9 fixed premium timbres with instruction control, no reference-audio cloning (that is the Base checkpoint) 906M Apache 2.0 CPU no output stream ▶
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice
10; 9 fixed premium timbres with instruction control, no reference-audio cloning (that is the Base checkpoint)
- Params
- 905,788,672 LM (safetensors.total); the required speech tokenizer adds ~170.5M
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- 10; 9 fixed premium timbres with instruction control, no reference-audio cloning (that is the Base checkpoint)
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (chunked)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published (the 97 ms claim names no hardware, batch size or conditions)
- CPU real-time
- no
- Quantized formats
- not published first-party (community MLX, GGUF, ONNX, OpenVINO INT8)
- Integration path
- DIY; QwenLM/Qwen3-TTS, vLLM-Omni offline inference. Genuine open weights, not the hosted Qwen3-TTS-Flash API
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base 10 + Chinese dialect voices 915M Apache 2.0 CPU no output stream ▶
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base
10 + Chinese dialect voices
- Params
- 914,643,008 LM (safetensors.total) + speech tokenizer 170,557,441
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- 10 + Chinese dialect voices
- Streaming
- Output-streaming (chunked)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published (same 97 ms claim, no hardware)
- CPU real-time
- no
- Quantized formats
- not published first-party (community MLX, GGUF, ONNX, OpenVINO INT8)
- Integration path
- DIY; QwenLM/Qwen3-TTS, vLLM-Omni offline inference
Sesame CSM-1B English ~ 1.00B Apache 2.0 CPU no other stream ▶
Sesame CSM-1B
English
- Params
- 1B (boundary case, see rule 1)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Languages
- English
- Streaming
- Conversational, context-conditioned generation
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- no
- Quantized formats
- community quantized variants exist; verify
- Integration path
- Community wrappers
Piper Many languages, per-language voices — GPL CPU yes sentence stream ▶
Piper
Many languages, per-language voices
- Params
- tens of M per voice
- License
- GPL v3
- Languages
- Many languages, per-language voices
- Streaming
- Sentence-level streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- yes
- Quantized formats
- ONNX (ships as ONNX)
- Integration path
- DIY; the default for Home Assistant and Raspberry Pi. GPL v3: fine to run as a service, read the license for distribution
Silero V5 CIS base 20+ CIS and Russia languages, 80+ speakers — MIT CPU yes ▶
Silero V5 CIS base
20+ CIS and Russia languages, 80+ speakers
- Params
- not published (87.4 MB TorchScript checkpoint bounds it near 22M)
- License
- MIT (LICENSE_CIS; covers v5_cis_base and v5_cis_base_nostress only, not v5_ru or v5_cis_ext)
- Languages
- 20+ CIS and Russia languages, 80+ speakers
- Streaming
- No native streaming (utterance-level apply_tts)
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- yes: 36.48x real time at 1 thread, 85.72x at 4 threads (vendor wiki, Intel Core i9-10940X @ 3.30 GHz)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- torch.hub or pip install silero. Pure PyTorch, vocoder included, no external dependency
StyleTTS 2 English (single and multi-speaker) — MIT CPU borderline ▶
StyleTTS 2
English (single and multi-speaker)
- Params
- under 1B
- License
- MIT
- Languages
- English (single and multi-speaker)
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- borderline
- Quantized formats
- community ONNX efforts
- Integration path
- DIY
MeloTTS En (4 accents), Es, Fr, Zh, Ja, Ko — MIT CPU yes ▶
MeloTTS
En (4 accents), Es, Fr, Zh, Ja, Ko
- Params
- under 1B (VITS-based)
- License
- MIT
- Languages
- En (4 accents), Es, Fr, Zh, Ja, Ko
- Streaming
- No native streaming; sentence-chunk workaround
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- yes
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- DIY; simple Python API
Silero V5 RU and CIS ext Russian (v5_ru through v5_5_ru) plus the CIS ext speaker set — Non-commercial ▶
Silero V5 RU and CIS ext
Russian (v5_ru through v5_5_ru) plus the CIS ext speaker set
- Restriction
- Non-commercial share-alike. The MIT LICENSE_CIS covers only the v5_cis_base variants, which are in the main table
- Params
- not published (TorchScript checkpoints, no exact count anywhere)
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 (main repo LICENSE; GitHub reports NOASSERTION)
- Languages
- Russian (v5_ru through v5_5_ru) plus the CIS ext speaker set
- Streaming
- No native streaming
- TTFB / first-chunk
- not published
- CPU real-time
- not published (see the CIS base row for the published i9-10940X figures)
- Quantized formats
- not published
- Integration path
- torch.hub or pip install silero. Self-contained TorchScript, vocoder included. Note livekit-plugins-silero and Pipecat's Silero service are VAD, not TTS
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