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22 October 2026

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Thursday 22 October 2026 1 story

  1. r/LocalLLaMAConfirmed

    KittenML releases Kitten-TTS 2, an open-source 1.58-bit text-to-speech model

    The 1.7B-parameter ternary model runs in real time on CPU, supports zero-shot voice cloning from under 5 seconds of audio, and covers 20+ languages with emotion and emphasis control.