# SteerTTS: 23M-param English TTS you steer with numbers (pitch, rate, loudness, etc. as z-scores), runs real-time on CPU [P]

> Source: <https://aiflash.com/news/136599/>
> Published: 2026-10-21 09:00:02+00:00

I was looking for small TTS model which is steerable but couldn't find any, specially something I can adjust contextually by providing controls from LLM during a conversation. So I built one. What it is: 9.6M-param acoustic model (attention + bidirectional Mamba-3, FastPitch-style) + Vocos vocoder =
