• This is amazing, the quality blow my mind for such small model! I just replaced my old onnx model with yours!

    here my implementation with speech dispatcher and server: https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/inflect-speechd

    thanks for shearing!

  • Couple highlights:

    > Complete local text-to-waveform speech synthesis under 10M parameters.

    In case, like me, you hoped "complete" voice might mean both stt and tts. Not to speak poorly of it, just clarifying.

    > English only, with one fixed male voice. This is not zero-shot voice cloning.

    (And then a bunch of statements on limitations that I read as 'quality can be spotty but if you play with it it should be fine') But like. In <10M params I'm not judging:)

    • When would “text-to-waveform speech synthesis” ever imply speech to text?
      • The HN title is "Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters".
  • How heavy in inference on this? The model would easily fit on many microcontroller modules, I wonder if they could run it?
  • I think we need more neurons in the human brain than parameters in this model for speech. I wonder what it says about the human brain vs LLM efficiency.
  • The inflections are weird but this doesn't sound like a robot. Not bad!
  • I keep seeing tts stories here. Is it just an interesting subset of the llm world, or is there a huge use case I’m somehow missing?
    • I use STT/TTS to interface with a local LLM for Home Assistant in my house.
      • I'm do so as well, i tried qwen3 omni 3 but it was ridiculously stupid, and i ended up with stt thinker and tts. kokoro for now
  • This is impressive. I wish there were a voice clone option.
    • With so few parameters, I imagine a voice fine-tune might be readily tractable.
  • this is extremely encouraging for individuals/small companies being able to train pareto-frontier TTS models (specifically compute required to run vs quality of model output)
  • I'd love to hear it but it seems your quota is exhausted.
  • Amazing quality for small size, but definitely not that enjoyable to listen to.

    IMHO, its at about the same quality level of historic TTS tools.

    • I'm not sure which historic tools you mean, but to me this sounds much better than anything older than ten years ago.
      • I compared the macos Samantha just now and I guess the inflect-micro is marginally better...
      • Ivona „Joey“, „Amy“
  • amazing! was looking for something similar
  • amazing quality for such small size!
  • Alternative title: Text to speech in 9.36M, English only.
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