Text-to-speech

KittenTTS Mini 0.8 requirements, license & speed

By KittenML · released 2026-02-19 · 80M parameters

Commercial useYes
Min memoryNot stated
Runs on CPUYes
StreamingUnknown

Key facts

License
apache-2.0 source
Commercial use
Yes source
Apache-2.0
Parameters
80M source
~79 MB file
Minimum memory
Not stated by source
Runs on CPU
Yes source
Lightweight ONNX, runs on CPU
Streaming
Unknown
Voice cloning
Unknown
Languages
Unknown
Released
2026-02-19 source
Hugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
Gated on HF
No

Measured speed & memory

Benchmark pending. We haven't measured KittenTTS Mini 0.8 yet. Planned targets: CPU (8 vCPU), Apple Silicon Mac, RTX-class consumer GPU and a rented cloud GPU. Get notified.

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