KittenML/kitten-tts-2
text-to-speech model by KittenML
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A 1.7B speech language model with in-context voice cloning. It reads text and writes S3 codec tokens, which a vocoder turns into 24 kHz audio. Everything the model needs is in this repository, so no Hugging Face login is required. m.availablevoices lists all 115. Bella, Jasper, Luna, Bruno, Rosie, Hugo, Kiki and Leo are the same speakers as in KittenTTS 0.8, so existing code keeps working. Voices named after a person are English. The rest are named for the language they speak followed by what they are — SpanishAbuela, JapaneseTrainConductor, RussianBabushka — and are how you reach those languages, since the voice is what carries the accent. Nine older entries carry a bare language name: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish. Sixteen languages have a named voice: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and English. Pass normalize=False for…
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- KittenTTS 2
- Voices
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- Decoders
- What is in here
- Running on CPU
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KittenML/kitten-tts-2 is a text-to-speech model repository published by KittenML on Hugging Face. A library was not reported.
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- text-to-speech
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- Created
- 2026-09-30T00:43:12.000Z
- Last modified
- 2026-10-23T22:04:46.000Z
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