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Pocket TTS on Mac (Apple Silicon M1–M4)
Benchmark pending. We haven't measured this pair yet. Below is what the sources say about this hardware, quoted with links.
Unified memory shared by CPU and GPU. Runtime support varies a lot (Metal via whisper.cpp/MLX; PyTorch MPS is often partial).
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Commercial useYes
Licensecc-by-4.0
Stated memoryNot stated
Device memory16 GB unified memory
Results
Benchmark pending. No measured numbers from us yet for Pocket TTS on Apple Silicon. Get notified or send us your numbers (with the method).
What the sources say about Apple Silicon
- Model authors ~6x real time on the CPU of a MacBook Air M4 (vendor). source
Method
We haven't run this pair. Everything on this page is quoted from the linked sources, with the source type labelled (model authors vs third parties). Vendor numbers are often measured under favourable conditions.
Ways to run Pocket TTS
Run it
pip install pocket-tts # Linux: add --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu to skip CUDA wheels
pocket-tts generateCopied from the linked README. We haven't run it on this device.