sanoTTS
sano (सानो) — Nepali for "small." A family of tiny neural text-to-speech voices — 294k to 2.27M parameters — that run with no cloud and no NPU: real-time on a ~$3 ESP32-S3 (out a GPIO into an LM386 and a speaker), or live in the browser via WASM.
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Can you run it?
Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.
| File | Quant | Size | Est. VRAM | Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| heart.gguf | GGUF | 0.0 GB | 0.5 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.
Specifications
- Licence
- gpl-3.0
- First seen on the Hub
- 2026-07-13
- Training datasets
- undisclosed
- Added to our catalog
- 2026-09-28
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