Pocket-TTS
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 23, 2026first mention
Oct 21, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I've now been using Pocket TTS which is super fast”
“pocket-tts is much better especially when you rip a good voice”
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“TTS using KyutAI’s Pocket-TTS, an amazing 100M-param model.”
“just 100M params, and amazing speech quality (English only)”
“I used the amazing 100M-parameter Pocket-TTS [1] model”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup? 3 mentions
- Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb 2 mentions
- Gemini vs. ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and TTS 1 mention
- How We Made a Text-to-Speech Model Respond in Sub-50 ms 1 mention
- Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro 1 mention
- Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI 1 mention
Also written as Pocket TTS, PocketTTS, pocket-tts, pocket-TTS. Data: pocket-tts.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 13
“I use PocketTTS for Memoe”
“I've now been using Pocket TTS which is super fast”
“is there a comparison to https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts ?”
“I found it fun to make a voice plugin for Claude Code that uses PocketTTS”
“pocket-tts is much better especially when you rip a good voice”
“TTS using KyutAI’s Pocket-TTS, an amazing 100M-param model.”
“PocketTTS running locally”
“just 100M params, and amazing speech quality (English only)”
“I used the amazing 100M-parameter Pocket-TTS [1] model”
“there’s really no advantage over pocket TTS.”
“just 100M params, and amazing speech quality (English only).”
“Pocket is small and fast and has good enough voice cloning.”
“which is just 100M params, and excellent in both speed and quality (English only). I use it in my voice plugin”