Text-to-speech

Higgs TTS 3 4B requirements, license & speed

By Boson AI · released 2026-06-04 · 4.65B parameters

Commercial useConditional
Min memoryNot stated
Runs on CPUUnknown
StreamingYes

Key facts

License
Boson Higgs TTS 3 Research and Non-Commercial License source
Commercial use
Conditional source
Non-commercial, plus a Creator Use Grant for monetized content; products/APIs need a commercial license
Parameters
4.65B source
safetensors parameter count
Minimum memory
Not stated by source
Runs on CPU
Unknown
Streaming
Yes source
SSE streaming via SGLang-Omni / vLLM-Omni
Voice cloning
Yes source
Languages
100+ languages source
Released
2026-06-04 source
Hugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
Gated on HF
No

Measured speed & memory

Benchmark pending. We haven't measured Higgs TTS 3 4B yet. Planned targets: Raspberry Pi 5, CPU-only x86, Apple Silicon Mac and consumer GPUs. Get notified.

Accuracy

We don't run accuracy evals. For quality and intelligibility, check the Hugging Face Open TTS Leaderboard.

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