Kyutai's Pocket TTS Clones Voice from 5 Seconds of Audio on CPU

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Kyutai's Pocket TTS, an MIT-licensed model, can clone a voice from just 5 seconds of audio on a CPU, demonstrating competitive performance against other English TTS models.

Impact & opportunity

What this could mean

This provides builders with an accessible and efficient open-source solution for rapid voice cloning directly on CPU, opening doors for personalized text-to-speech applications without heavy hardware.