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I released sanoTTS: smallest complete TTS stack in 294k params (337 KB) that runs on $3 microcontroller and a 1.46m one that beats models 3x and 10x it's size

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Thursday, Sep 3, 2026 ยท 10:01PM
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I have been trying to squeeze TTS stack down far enough to run in a $3 chip which has 512kb of SRAM without NPU. While trying to get to that milestone i built sanoTTS which has - 11 voices, 6 languages - params size ranging from 294k - 2.2m. For comparison we are 1000x smaller than kokoro, 9000x sma

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