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kitten-tts-nano-0.8-5bit
mlx-community/kitten-tts-nano-0.8-5bit
kitten-tts-nano-0.8-5bit is a text-to-speech model from mlx-community. Use it when you need text read aloud. It is set up for mlx.
This is the INT5 (MLX 5-bit) MLX conversion of KittenML/kitten-tts-nano-0.8.
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From the Hugging Face model README
mlx-community/kitten-tts-nano-0.8-5bit
This is the INT5 (MLX 5-bit) MLX conversion of KittenML/kitten-tts-nano-0.8.
Usage
pip install -U mlx-audio
python -m mlx_audio.tts.generate --model mlx-community/kitten-tts-nano-0.8-5bit --text "This is a local MLX test voice." --voice "expr-voice-5-m"
Inference Notes
The MLX implementation includes small end-of-utterance smoothing to prevent abrupt cutoffs.
You can override it with fade_out_ms=0 and tail_silence_ms=0 in Model.generate().
Original Model
Refer to the original model card for details: https://huggingface.co/KittenML/kitten-tts-nano-0.8
- Task
- Text-to-Speech
- Library
- mlx
- Type
- kitten_tts
- Created
- Feb 24, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 24, 2026