rohan_joshi

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   by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

   okay this seems pretty doable, i think i know someone who is working on an epub reader using kittentts. if they don't post about it, i'll do it once its done.
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   by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

   it'd be an interesting experiment to try what kind of information is extracted from the samples of the pet sounds. it'd be so cool if it can just get the features of the audio and then still be able to reproduce the audio in engli
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   by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

   yes, our mobile sdk is coming soon(eta 2 weeks) so we should be able to replace the built-in version of it. can you share what tts use-case you're thinking of?
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   by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

   thanks a lot. small model quality is improving exponentially. This 15M is way better than the 80M model from our previous launch (V0.1).
5. 35.▲
   by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

   thanks for the feedback. i'll add an example of running it on gpu.
6. 36.▲
   by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

   thanks a lot, our voice cloning model will be out by May. we're experimenting w some very cool ways of doing voice cloning at 15M but will have a range of models going upto 500M
7. 37.▲
   by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

   we'd love to serve this use-case. i'll make a demo for this next week and comment here with it.
8. 38.▲
   by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

   yeah i think to start with, narrowing it down to a few tags would be most helpful and we'll probably start w that first. Thanks a lot!
9. 39.▲
   by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

   great idea, we're on it. we're also working on a mobile sdk. a browser sdk would be really cool too.
10. 40.▲
    by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

    yes. the current release of our model is english-only. so other languages are not expected to perform well. we'll try to look out for this in our multilingual release.
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    by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

    80M model is the highest quality while also being quite efficient. it is superior in terms of pronunciation accuracy for less common words, and also is more stable in terms of speed. its my fav model. i think the 40M is quite similar to 80M
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    by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

    small models struggle with prosody due to limited capacity. this version does much better than the precious one and is the best among other <25MB models. Kokoro is a really good model for its size, its competitive on artificial analysis
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    by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

    great idea, let me add this. meanwhile, you can try the models on our huggingface spaces demo here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/KittenML/KittenTTS-Demo
14. 44.▲
    by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

    thank you so much. Right now, it cannot handle expressive tags. what kind of tags would be most helpful according to you?
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    by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

    yeah we'll add some more professional-sounding voices and also support for diy custom voices. we tried to add more anime/cartoon-ish voices to showcase the expressivity. Regarding running on the 3080 gpu, can you share more detail
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    by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

    shouldn't be hard. what backend/hardware are you interested in running this with? i'll add an example for using C++ onnx model. btw check out roadmap, our inference engine will be out 1-2 weeks and it is expected to be faster
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    by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

    as of now its english only. the training for multilingual model is underway and should be out in April! what languages are you most interested in? Right now, we are providing deployments for custom languages + voices through support form on
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    by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

    yes, we're releasing an official mobile sdk and inference engine very soon. if you want to use something until then, some folks from the oss community have built ways to run kitten on ios. if you search kittentts ios on github you shou
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    by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

    thanks a lot for the feedback. yes, we're working on a diy way to add custom voices and will also be releasing a model with more professional voices in the next 2-3 weeks. as of now, we're providing commercial support for custom v
20. 50.▲
    Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB(github.com)

    561 points by rohan_joshi 7mo ago|181 comments
21. 51.▲
    by rohan_joshi 7mo ago

    so cool
22. 52.▲
    by rohan_joshi 8mo ago

    we also launched on reddit and got great feedback on locallamma. the video with samples are posted there too.
23. 53.▲
    by rohan_joshi 8mo ago

    hi, the readme in the github has a video. the entire audio is outputted from the models ^^ would love the feedback.
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    Show HN: Three new models by KittenML. <25 MB Open-source TTS. Highly Expressive(kittenml.com)

    4 points by rohan_joshi 8mo ago|6 comments
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    by rohan_joshi 8mo ago

    New Kitten TTS V0.8 models are out in three variants - 80M, 40M, 14M. The largest model has the highest quality. The 14M variant reaches new SOTA in expressivity among similar sized models, despite being <25MB in size. All models are hig
26. 56.▲
    by rohan_joshi 1y ago

    would love to see how that turns out. the full model release next week will be more expressive and higher quality than this one so we're excited to see you try that out.
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    by rohan_joshi 1y ago

    thanks, but keep in mind that this model is just a preview checkpoint that is only 10% trained. the full release next week will be of much higher quality and it will include a 15M model and an 80M model.
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    by rohan_joshi 1y ago

    thanks a lot, this model is just a preview checkpoint. the full release next week will be of much higher quality.
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    by rohan_joshi 1y ago

    thanks, we're going to release many more models in the future, that can run on just CPUs.
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    by rohan_joshi 1y ago

    yeah, this is just a preview model from an early checkpoint. the full model release will be next week which includes a 15M model and an 80M model, both of which will have much higher quality than this preview.