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Audio8-TTS-MLX-BF16
vanch007/Audio8-TTS-MLX-BF16
Audio8-TTS-MLX-BF16 is a text-to-speech model from vanch007. Use it when you need text read aloud. It is set up for mlx. The card lists the license as apache-2.0.
Native MLX BF16 baseline of Audio8/Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b for Apple Silicon.
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At a glance
- Task
- Text-to-Speech
- Library
- mlx
- License
- apache-2.0
- Model type
- arktts
- Access
- Public
- Created
- Sep 3, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 3, 2026
- SHA
- 9e660312
Base models
Model card
From the Hugging Face model README
Audio8-TTS-MLX-BF16
Native MLX BF16 baseline of Audio8/Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b for Apple Silicon.
Inference code, installation, API documentation, tests, and benchmark evidence: vanch007/mlx-audio8-tts.
Artifact
- 1,147 MiB language-model weights; 2.39 GiB complete repository download.
- Bundled 1.26 GiB, 44.1 kHz neural codec with 10 acoustic codebooks.
- Baseline for comparing the recommended 8-bit release.
M3 Max benchmark
Measured RTF across the 11-language real-device matrix: 1.245–1.484. The matrix also covers zero-shot voice cloning and streaming. See the evaluation report.
Usage
git clone https://github.com/vanch007/mlx-audio8-tts.git
cd mlx-audio8-tts
pip install -e '.[server]'
mlx-audio8-tts generate \
--model vanch007/Audio8-TTS-MLX-BF16 \
--text "Hello from the MLX BF16 baseline." \
--output output.wav
This is an independent Apache-2.0 MLX conversion. See the upstream project for the original architecture and checkpoint.
- Task
- Text-to-Speech
- Library
- mlx
- Type
- arktts
- License
- apache-2.0
- Languages
- yue, zh, en, ja, ko, fr
- Created
- Sep 3, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 3, 2026