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Silencio-2: an 18M TTS with emotion and sound tags, ~20x realtime on CPU (open weights)

I made this, so treat it as biased. It is free and open, with no paid tier or API behind it. Silencio-2 is a fine-tune of Kyutai's Pocket TTS 18M that follows tags written inside the text: What a long day. [sigh] Keep your voice down. Keep your voice down. I said stop! Weights and code: https://hug…

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  1. 2026-11-01 18:07 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Silencio-2: an 18M TTS with emotion and sound tags, ~20x realtime on CPU (open weights)

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