sanoTTS: Complete TTS Stack in 294k Parameters, Runs on a $3 Microcontroller
The brief
A developer released sanoTTS, a text-to-speech system with 11 voices and 6 languages packed into 294k parameters (337 KB).
Key points
- The model runs on microcontrollers with 512 KB of SRAM and no NPU, such as chips costing around $3.
- This makes it one of the smallest functional multilingual TTS systems available.
Sources
- redditreddit.com