Supertonic
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Jan 15, 2026first mention
Jul 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“For the TTS part: https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertonic”
“its crazy what that team accomplished!”
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“Another recent example: https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertonic”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
- Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice 3 mentions
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- Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb 1 mention
- Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup? 1 mention
- The State of Modern AI Text to Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users 1 mention
Also written as Supertonic-3, supertonic-3. Data: supertonic.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 7
“competitive with much larger lightweight TTS systems, including KittenTTS, Piper, and Supertonic-3”
“It's currently using Nemotron-3.5-ASR and supertonic-3”
“For the TTS part: https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertonic”
“its crazy what that team accomplished!”
“In-browser demo of Supertonic with WASM”
Another one is Soprano-1.1. It seems like it is being trained by one person, and it is surprisingly natural for such a small model. I remember when TTS always meant the most robotic, barely comprehensible voices. https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qcusnt/soprano_1180m_released_95_fewer_hallucinations/ https://huggingface.co/ekwek/Soprano-1.1-80M
“Another recent example: https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertonic”