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Complete local text-to-waveform speech synthesis under 10M parameters

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According to Adafruit, Inflect-Micro-v2 is a complete text-to-speech synthesis model that runs entirely on your device with under ten million parameters. The model handles long passages and supports both CPU and GPU inference, with two variants available on Hugging Face: Micro prioritizes quality, while Nano reduces the footprint to under four million parameters. This enables local speech synthesis without relying on cloud services.

Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/08/04/complete-local-text-...

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