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kitten-tts-mini-0.8

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: c027256Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text to speech model. Mlx and onnx weights, 81.5 MB in all. Published by KittenML under Apache-2.0.

text81.5MBkitten-tts-mini-0.8mlx onnxpermissive
FactsParamsnot statedSize81.5 MBFormatsmlx, onnxTasktext to speechLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-0.8
# manifest sha256 490ee5173015… · 81.5 MB · 5 files
$ fw verify ./kitten-tts-mini-0.8 KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-0.8
From sourceHosted (signed)KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-0.8Last check: 2026-11-15 02:31 UTC
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Overview

Size
81.5 MB
Weights
78.3 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 Mini 0.8 😻#

Kitten TTS is an open-source realistic text-to-speech model with 80 million parameters and around 79MB 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-mini-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 · 81.5 MBWeights 78.3 MB (ONNX). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes1.52 KB11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361
README.md734 Bcab0af19aa75f409684d165407c32a0d845cc8fc660606c379f4b0663f87abae
config.json470 B6b160bc9b19e24ecb21e84bc14f8a7da21fdf47ec72d42450bc5cf514b61804a
kitten_tts_mini_v0_8.onnx78.3 MB0f5bbae4fc4800c98dbc544a87ecfa79510de2fb8222db30d12e5bfe9177df91
voices.npz3.28 MB40ad2638952b77b7b2f30127e2608e169fc69dd256b53bd8aaa3409a33193c42
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c02725660c pinned now2026-11-15 02:31 UTC5 files · 81.5 MB

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$ fw get KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-0.8
# manifest sha256 490ee5173015… · 81.5 MB · 5 files
$ fw verify ./kitten-tts-mini-0.8 KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-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-mini-0.8.json --dir ./kitten-tts-mini-0.8 $ python3 fw.py verify ./kitten-tts-mini-0.8 ./KittenML__kitten-tts-mini-0.8.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-0.8 --revision c02725660cea441db4c383af69f1f26f5cd00947 --local-dir ./kitten-tts-mini-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-mini-0.8 --prompt "Hello"
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License

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Apache License 2.0
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Apache-2.0
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Permissive
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yes
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From: KittenML <huggingface.co/KittenML>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.textSubject: kitten-tts-mini-0.8Date: 2026-11-15Commit: c027256Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-0.8
Pinned commit
c02725660cea441db4c383af69f1f26f5cd00947
Manifest
kitten-tts-mini-0.8.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
490ee5173015fc4f1aac85cb0b4ccd007f57af7e29618df1f2884dfe75c22636
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 02:31 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-0.8.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-0.8.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm kitten-tts-mini-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-mini-0.8.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/KittenML/kitten-tts-mini-0.8

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