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kitten-tts-micro-0.8

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 1ccf72bSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text to speech model. Mlx and onnx weights, 44.7 MB in all. Published by KittenML under Apache-2.0.

text44.7MBkitten-tts-micro-0.8mlx onnxpermissive
FactsParamsnot statedSize44.7 MBFormatsmlx, onnxTasktext to speechLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8
# manifest sha256 7df25783cc6f… · 44.7 MB · 5 files
$ fw verify ./kitten-tts-micro-0.8 KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8
From sourceHosted (signed)KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8Last check: 2026-11-15 03:22 UTC
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Overview

Size
44.7 MB
Weights
41.4 MB (ONNX)
Parameters
not stated
Formats
mlx, onnx
Task
text to speech
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
5, each with a sha256
Publisher
KittenML
Added
2026-11-15
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Kitten TTS Micro 0.8 😻#

Kitten TTS is an open-source realistic text-to-speech model with 40 million parameters and around 40MB of filesize.

🚀 Quick Start#

Installation#
pip install https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/releases/download/0.8/kittentts-0.8.0-py3-none-any.whl
Basic Usage#
from kittentts import KittenTTS
m = KittenTTS("KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8")
audio = m.generate("This high quality TTS model works without a GPU", voice='Jasper' )
# available_voices : ['Bella', 'Jasper', 'Luna', 'Bruno', 'Rosie', 'Hugo', 'Kiki', 'Leo']
# Save the audio
import soundfile as sf
sf.write('output.wav', audio, 24000)
Acknowledgements#

StyleTTS 2 architecture

Files

5 files · 44.7 MBWeights 41.4 MB (ONNX). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.52 KB11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361
README.md736 Bbdee9c78ef3877a7993dceff93394ce3d58117c32768114da6a055a90e5b2905
config.json473 B1f0bd2208348f9211cb0da64fcd1536eb28228571cc6b09e767eb6e203a0a532
kitten_tts_micro_v0_8.onnx41.4 MB95481626fee1ba70ce683e69c534fc7cb38433c46ce42d3abbeafb4b9f1a4123
voices.npz3.28 MB112710c1be8ad0e967c190fb0fd95cbe5848ec4791b93209f20b28b7da20dac1
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1ccf72b2c2 pinned now2026-11-15 03:22 UTC5 files · 44.7 MB

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$ fw get KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8
# manifest sha256 7df25783cc6f… · 44.7 MB · 5 files
$ fw verify ./kitten-tts-micro-0.8 KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8.json --dir ./kitten-tts-micro-0.8 $ python3 fw.py verify ./kitten-tts-micro-0.8 ./KittenML__kitten-tts-micro-0.8.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8 --revision 1ccf72b2c2048fd17efac7de2fab32d10e225084 --local-dir ./kitten-tts-micro-0.8
MLXRun on Apple silicon with mlx-lm.
$ pip install mlx-lm $ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com mlx_lm.generate --model KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8 --prompt "Hello"
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License

Name
Apache License 2.0
Id
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive
Redistribution
yes
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Hosted (signed)
Decided
License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15
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Provenance

From: KittenML <huggingface.co/KittenML>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.textSubject: kitten-tts-micro-0.8Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 1ccf72bSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8
Pinned commit
1ccf72b2c2048fd17efac7de2fab32d10e225084
Manifest
kitten-tts-micro-0.8.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
7df25783cc6ff13769c78fb8141f98b29b780b0d0701d49a585e6fc3ee53b365
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 03:22 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm kitten-tts-micro-0.8.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

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Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. kitten-tts-micro-0.8.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/KittenML/kitten-tts-micro-0.8

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