devnen / Kitten-TTS-Server
Self-host the ultra-lightweight Kitten TTS model with this enhanced API server with an intuitive Web UI, large text processing for audiobooks, and GPU acceleration.
Why this job: says: tts; topics: text-to-speech, tts, speech-synthesis, audio-generation


What it does
- Multi-Model Support. All 7 KittenTTS models (Nano, Micro, Mini across v0.1/v0.2/v0.8) with hot-swappable switching from the UI.
- Automatic Model Download. Models are downloaded from Hugging Face on first use and cached locally.
- True GPU Acceleration. Full support for NVIDIA (CUDA) via an optimized onnxruntime-gpu pipeline with I/O Binding for maximum performance.
Get started
git clone https://github.com/devnen/Kitten-TTS-Server.git
cd Kitten-TTS-Server You need: Operating System: Windows 10/11 (64-bit) or Linux (Debian/Ubuntu recommended).; Python: Version 3.10 or later.; Git: For cloning the repository.
- Maintenance
- Inactive
- Last commit 7 months ago
- Stars
- 281
- On GitHub
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- None yet
- No releases
- Built with
- Python
- 52% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- Not stated
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 44% closed
- 5 still open
- Pull requests
- 1 merged
- 4 waiting
- Releases
- None
- Never published
- No contributing guide
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Python 52%
- JavaScript 19%
- CSS 16%
- HTML 11%
Topics
- ai
- api-server
- audio-generation
- cuda
- fastapi
- huggingface
- kitten
- openai-api
- python
- pytorch
- speech-synthesis
- text-to-speech
Project record
- JobSpeech and audio
- StatusListed
- Commits29
- Forks44
- Watching4
- Stars in 28 days+1
- CreatedAug 5, 2025
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 8, 2026
