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Irodori-TTS-500M-v3-8bit
mlx-community/Irodori-TTS-500M-v3-8bit
Irodori-TTS-500M-v3-8bit is a text-to-speech model from mlx-community. Use it when you need text read aloud. It is set up for mlx-audio.
Japanese TTS model converted to MLX 8-bit quantized format from Aratako/Irodori-TTS-500M-v3 using mlx-audio v0.4.3.
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mlx-community/Irodori-TTS-500M-v3-8bit
Japanese TTS model converted to MLX 8-bit quantized format from Aratako/Irodori-TTS-500M-v3 using mlx-audio v0.4.3.
Features (v3)
- Duration predictor: automatically estimates output length — no need to specify
- Sway Sampling: non-linear timestep schedule for better quality with fewer steps
- Voice cloning: optional for speaker style transfer
- Backward compatible: v2 checkpoints continue to work
Available variants
| Model | Size | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| mlx-community/Irodori-TTS-500M-v3-fp16 | 977 MB | ~4.3 GB |
| mlx-community/Irodori-TTS-500M-v3-8bit (this) | 663 MB | ~4.0 GB |
Use with mlx-audio
Command line
Python
- Task
- Text-to-Speech
- Library
- mlx-audio
- Type
- irodori_tts
- Created
- May 18, 2026
- Updated
- May 18, 2026