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Text-to-speech application designed to run efficiently on CPUs. Version 4.0.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-10-27. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#pocket-tts.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install pocket-tts

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Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#pocket-tts

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/po/pocket-tts/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Text-to-speech application designed to run efficiently on CPUs

Commands and aliases

  • pocket-tts

history

Project history and usage

Pocket TTS is Kyutai's compact neural text-to-speech system for CPU-oriented local inference, streaming synthesis and voice cloning from an audio prompt.

Project history

Kyutai introduced Pocket TTS from its work on continuous audio language models. The associated research was published in 2025, and the project exposed the model through an open repository, Python API and command-line interface.

During 2026 the project added official multilingual models, quantization, training code, community model documentation and increasingly small CPU-oriented models and executables.

Adoption history

Pocket TTS was designed to make neural speech generation practical on ordinary CPUs rather than requiring a hosted API or accelerator. Its CLI, Python API, streaming output and voice prompting support local applications and experiments.

The project developed an ecosystem of community-trained language models and alternative implementations. Later releases added multilingual official models, training code and small native runtime binaries.

How it is used

Users can generate audio from the pocket-tts CLI or Python API, selecting a built-in voice or supplying an audio prompt to clone a voice.

Model configuration may be supplied as a local or remote YAML argument, but the project does not prescribe a persistent configuration-file location or credentials file.

Why package nerds care

Pocket TTS packages low-latency neural speech synthesis and voice cloning into a comparatively small local tool. This makes modern TTS accessible through a normal package-manager workflow instead of a remote service.

Its evolution from a Python inference package to documented training code and native runtime binaries is notable for users building reproducible, offline speech pipelines.

Timeline

  • 2025: The Continuous Audio Language Models research underlying Pocket TTS was published.
  • 2026: Version 2 added official multilingual models.
  • 2026: Version 3 published the training code.
  • 2026: Version 4 added sub-20-million-parameter models and native runtime binaries.

Related projects

  • Kyutai publishes the Pocket TTS model weights and voice assets through its official Hugging Face organization. Community ports and trained models extend the inference code to additional runtimes and languages.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for pocket-tts. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 5 platform targets.
  • Installs with 7 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
pocket-ttscliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-11-04
manager version4.0.1
manager updated2026-10-27
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:pocket-tts
Version4.0.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/pocket-tts
Homepagehttps://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts
Repositoryhttps://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/03/a5/e787a6b68ad100c1f33539e3f9108b32a08d65d94d18996927a3562cdd38/pocket_tts-4.0.1.tar.gz
Last updated2026-10-27T03:42:14Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciescertifi, libyaml, pydantic, python@3.15, pytorch, scipy, sentencepiece
Build dependenciescmake, pkgconf, rust
Bottleavailable (on arm64_golden_gate, arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_tahoe, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

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Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namepocket-tts
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
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  • stable

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pocket-tts

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