Introducing BlueTTS

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Key Points

  • BlueTTS is a lightweight, open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model designed for speed and ease of use.
  • It supports multiple languages—including switching languages within the same sentence—and offers a large set of voices out of the box.
  • The model is reported to achieve up to 1500× real-time on GPU and real-time performance on CPU while remaining small (about 80MB) for broader device compatibility.
  • The training pipeline is also fully open-source, and the project invites community contributions such as adding support to llama.cpp.
  • BlueTTS is available via lightbluetts.com and the GitHub repository provided in the article.

I recently worked on BlueTTS, a lightweight text-to-speech model that focuses on speed and usability.

It supports multiple languages: English, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, and French (even within the same sentence), and comes with a large set of voices available out of the box.

The model reaches up to 1500× real-time on GPU and runs in real-time on CPU, while staying small enough (~80MB) to run on almost any machine.

Everything is fully open-source, including the training pipeline :)

Contributions are welcome, for example adding support in llama.cpp.

You can check it out here:

https://lightbluetts.com

https://github.com/maxmelichov/BlueTTS

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