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Paradee: Distilling Kokoro-82M into an 8M-Parameter Single-Voice Text-to-Speech Model
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Paradee compresses Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model from 82 million to 8 million parameters while maintaining single-voice quality.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers deploying TTS on resource-constrained devices, edge servers, or embedded systems needing fast inference.
- Watch out
- Model handles only one voice instead of Kokoro's fifty-four; quality drops slightly from 4.52 to 4.41 UTMOS score.
- distill
- voice
- speech
- text-to-speech
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