As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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# Kyutai Pocket TTS

Kyutai, Pocket TTS family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2026-01-13.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | `kyutai/pocket-tts` |  | https://huggingface.co/kyutai/pocket-tts |
| Hugging Face (no cloning variant) | `kyutai/pocket-tts-without-voice-cloning` |  | https://huggingface.co/kyutai |
| GitHub / pip | `pocket-tts` |  | https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts |

## Pricing

- Price not published.
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, audio
- Output: audio
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: yes
- Licence: cc-by-4.0

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 72. The 5 newest:
  - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B) (2026-10-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/
  - Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B (2026-10-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/
  - Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
  - Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/
  - Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/
- Before it from Kyutai: Kyutai TTS 1.6B / Kyutai STT + Unmute (2025-07-03) https://postcutoff.com/m/kyutai-tts-stt/
- Weights are public. Licence: CC BY 4.0. See the licence for commercial terms.

## What stands out

- 100M-param TTS with cloning, real time on CPU: ~200 ms to first audio and ~6x real time on a MacBook Air M4 CPU; streaming, unbounded text length; voice cloning from audio. Source: https://huggingface.co/kyutai/pocket-tts
- Six languages (found after launch): English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (multilingual since 2026-05-04). Source: https://kyutai.org/blog/

## Notes

Gated on HF (accept prohibited-use terms). Training code released 2026-08-25; 2026-09-28 post describes a 'drifting' objective replacing flow matching for the sampler head. `pip install pocket-tts`. Community WebAssembly ports run in-browser.

Sources: https://huggingface.co/kyutai/pocket-tts , https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts , https://kyutai.org/blog/

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/kyutai-pocket-tts/