Text-to-speech

NeuTTS Air requirements, license & speed

By Neuphonic · released 2025-09-15 · ~552M (emb + active), ~360M active parameters

Commercial useYes
Min memoryNot stated
Runs on CPUYes
StreamingYes

Key facts

License
apache-2.0 source
Commercial use
Yes source
Air is Apache-2.0; newer Nano variants use NeuTTS Open License 1.0. HF repo gated
Parameters
~552M (emb + active), ~360M active source
Minimum memory
Not stated by source
Runs on CPU
Yes source
CPU benchmarks published (Ryzen 9HX 370, M4, Galaxy A25)
Streaming
Yes source
Streaming via GGUF backbones + llama-cpp-python
Voice cloning
Yes source
From ~3 s of audio
Languages
en source
Released
2025-09-15 source
Hugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
Gated on HF
Yes accept terms on Hugging Face before downloading

Measured speed & memory

Benchmark pending. We haven't measured NeuTTS Air 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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