Post by Shaik Gouse Pasha

🗣️ This AI speaks 2,000x faster than you. (And it runs on CPU). We are used to High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) being heavy. You either pay for ElevenLabs (expensive), or you run massive models that eat your VRAM. Eugene Kwek (ekwek) just released Soprano 1.1, and it’s the most efficient audio model I’ve ever seen. It is an 80 Million Parameter model. To put that in perspective: It uses <1GB of RAM. You can run this on a Raspberry Pi, a cheap Android phone, or a 5-year-old laptop. The "Insane" Specs: Speed: It generates audio at 2,000x Real-Time on a GPU. (It generates 1 hour of speech in ~2 seconds). Latency: <15ms (Instant streaming). Quality: 32kHz High-Fidelity. It beats Kokoro (the previous open-source king) in blind preference tests. The "Factory" Update: The best part isn't just the model. It's the Soprano Factory. He released the training code so you can Fine-Tune your own voices. Want a custom brand voice? Want an offline assistant for your robot? You can bake it into an 80M model that runs offline. The Verdict: If you are building a Voice Agent, stop calling expensive cloud APIs. Soprano is free, fast, and private. 🔗 The Stack: Hugging Face: https://lnkd.in/ggDSGpmB Train Your Own (Factory): https://lnkd.in/gDWnna3J Listen to the Demo: https://lnkd.in/guJUXWus Who is deploying this on a local device this weekend? 👇 #GenerativeAI #SopranoTTS #OpenSource #VoiceAI #EdgeAI #MachineLearning #ElevenLabs #LocalLLM