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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

  1. The model runs on microcontrollers with 512 KB of SRAM and no NPU, such as chips costing around $3.
  2. This makes it one of the smallest functional multilingual TTS systems available.
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