Text-to-speech

VibeVoice-Realtime 0.5B requirements, license & speed

By Microsoft · released 2025-12-04 · 0.5B LLM (1.02B total in safetensors) parameters

Commercial useYes
Min memoryNot stated
Runs on CPUUnknown
StreamingYes

Key facts

License
mit source
Commercial use
Yes source
MIT, but Microsoft does not recommend commercial/real-world use without further testing; card lists prohibited uses
Parameters
0.5B LLM (1.02B total in safetensors) source
Minimum memory
Not stated by source
Runs on CPU
Unknown
Streaming
Yes source
Streaming text input
Voice cloning
Unknown
Languages
English (+ experimental voices in 9 more languages) source
Released
2025-12-04 source
Hugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
Gated on HF
No

Measured speed & memory

Benchmark pending. We haven't measured VibeVoice-Realtime 0.5B 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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