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Kitten-TTS 2: New Open-source SOTA 1.58 bit TTS (CPU-only with voice cloning, multilingual, emotion control)

KittenML has just released code and weights of Kitten-TTS 2, which is a super-efficient frontier TTS model, and the world's first 1.58-bit TTS model . It runs in real time on just a CPU, with zero-shot voice cloning, multilingual support, and expressive / emphasis control. Code and weights are open…

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  1. 2026-10-22 00:33 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Kitten-TTS 2: New Open-source SOTA 1.58 bit TTS (CPU-only with voice cloning, multilingual, emotion control)

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