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I created a CLI wrapper for Kitten TTS: https://github.com/newptcai/purr https://github.com/newptcai/purr BTW, it seems that kitten (the Python package) has th

I created a CLI wrapper for Kitten TTS: https://github.com/newptcai/purr https://github.com/newptcai/purr BTW, it seems that kitten (the Python package) has the following chain of dependencies: kittentts → misaki[en] → spacy-curated-transformers So if you install it directly via uv, it will pull torch and NVIDIA CUDA packages (several GB), which are not needed to run kitten.

cristoperb 7mo ago
Thanks, your install script worked for me. In case it helps anyone else, the first time I tried to run purr I got "OSError: PortAudio library not found". Installing libportaudio (apt install libportaudio2) got it running.
- Mic92 7mo ago
  Also did create a cli. I had to fork the project and removed one unused import which allowed me to remove a lot of unused ml libraries: https://github.com/Mic92/puss-say https://github.com/Mic92/puss-say
  - Mic92 7mo ago
    Unfortunately upstream never looks at any pull requests.
yjftsjthsd-h 7mo ago
Thank you so much, that fixes an enormous pain point I was hitting. It's not just the size, that dependency chain was actually breaking on my machine and failing to install. Are we losing something by dropping the extra dependencies?
- dawdler-purge 7mo ago
  I don't think so. It is perhaps a bug to have this unnecessary dependency. I expect the author of kitten to fix this soon.
  - rohan_joshi 7mo ago
    thanks a lot for helping w this. yes i'll fix this asap.
    - dawdler-purge 7mo ago
      Please let me know when this has been fixed. I will update purr to make the installation steps simpler.
ilyaizen 7mo ago
You might also like CopySpeak, a lightweight tool I've recently built for quick AI text-to-speech using the clipboard, featuring Kitten TTS and other engines. https://github.com/ilyaizen/CopySpeak https://github.com/ilyaizen/CopySpeak

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I created a CLI wrapper for Kitten TTS: https://github.com/newptcai/purr https://github.com/newptcai/purr BTW, it seems that kitten (the Python package) has th

by dawdler-purge 7mo ago

cristoperb 7mo ago
Thanks, your install script worked for me. In case it helps anyone else, the first time I tried to run purr I got "OSError: PortAudio library not found". Installing libportaudio (apt install libportaudio2) got it running.
- Mic92 7mo ago
  Also did create a cli. I had to fork the project and removed one unused import which allowed me to remove a lot of unused ml libraries: https://github.com/Mic92/puss-say https://github.com/Mic92/puss-say
  - Mic92 7mo ago
    Unfortunately upstream never looks at any pull requests.
yjftsjthsd-h 7mo ago
Thank you so much, that fixes an enormous pain point I was hitting. It's not just the size, that dependency chain was actually breaking on my machine and failing to install. Are we losing something by dropping the extra dependencies?
- dawdler-purge 7mo ago
  I don't think so. It is perhaps a bug to have this unnecessary dependency. I expect the author of kitten to fix this soon.
  - rohan_joshi 7mo ago
    thanks a lot for helping w this. yes i'll fix this asap.
    - dawdler-purge 7mo ago
      Please let me know when this has been fixed. I will update purr to make the installation steps simpler.
ilyaizen 7mo ago
You might also like CopySpeak, a lightweight tool I've recently built for quick AI text-to-speech using the clipboard, featuring Kitten TTS and other engines. https://github.com/ilyaizen/CopySpeak https://github.com/ilyaizen/CopySpeak