Matcha-TTS-LiteRT

Matcha-TTS — LiteRT (on-device, FFT-free, GPU)

On-device English text-to-speech for Android via LiteRT CompiledModel. This is the FFT-free TTS lane: Matcha-TTS pairs a conditional flow-matching (CFM) acoustic model with a HiFi-GAN time-domain vocoder, so there is no FFT/iSTFT anywhere in the synthesis path. 22.05 kHz, LJSpeech voice.

Converted from the official matcha_ljspeech + hifigan_T2_v1 checkpoints with litert-torch, re-authored to be ML-Drift-GPU-clean (per-graph tflite-vs-torch corr 1.000000; end-to-end waveform corr ≥0.99). fp16 weights.

Files

¹ The CFM decoder runs on the CompiledModel CPU delegate. It converts GPU-clean and is correct on CPU, but the Mali ML Drift GPU delegate mis-fuses the decoder's transformer blocks at large activation magnitude (the same block is correct as a standalone GPU graph, corr 0.984, but collapses to corr 0.006 fused — a graph-fusion bug, not a bad op). text encoder + vocoder run on the GPU; the GPU vocoder dominates wall time so the pipeline stays realtime (RTF ~0.8).

Pipeline (host orchestration)

text --G2P(CPU dict+neural)--> phoneme ids
     --host: embed + intersperse + pad-->     text_encoder(GPU) -> mu, logw
     --host: durations + length-regulator-->  mu_y[1,80,T]
     --host: Euler ODE loop (N steps)-->        decoder(CPU) x N -> v
     --host: denormalize-->                     vocoder(GPU)     -> waveform

Fixed shapes (256 phonemes, 512 mel frames ≈ 5.9 s); a runtime float mask makes padded positions a no-op so one compiled graph handles any length.

G2P (espeak-free)

Matcha-LJSpeech is trained on espeak en-us IPA, but espeak is GPL. The clean replacement is a 275k-entry espeak-IPA dictionary (from OpenPhonemizer, Clear BSD) as primary + DeepPhonemizer (MIT) on LiteRT CPU for out-of-dictionary words. Output IPA maps 1:1 onto the keithito 178-symbol set.

Sample

See the LiteRT compiled_model_api/text_to_speech sample (Matcha-TTS) in google-ai-edge/litert-samples for the full Android app and the conversion scripts.

License

Model: MIT (Matcha-TTS / HiFi-GAN). G2P dict: Clear BSD (OpenPhonemizer) + MIT (DeepPhonemizer).

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