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We shrank our steerable small TTS to 11.84 MB. WER is unchanged, UTMOS drops ~0.1 [p]

WhissleAI released SteerTTS Edge, an edge variant of its SteerTTS v1 steerable English text-to-speech model, at 11.84 MB for everything an app must ship — weights, voices, text front end and Python runtime. The company reports word error rate is unchanged from the original model, while the UTMOS naturalness score drops by roughly 0.1.

read1 min views5 publishedOct 25, 2026

A while back I posted SteerTTS v1, a small English TTS you steer with numbers ( https://huggingface.co/WhissleAI/steer-tts ). Today I am releasing the edge variant: https://huggingface.co/WhissleAI/steer-tts-edge Size: everything an app has to ship (weights, voices, text front end and Python runtime

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