{"slug": "we-shrank-our-steerable-small-tts-to-11-84-mb-wer-is-unchanged-utmos-drops-0-1-p", "title": "We shrank our steerable small TTS to 11.84 MB. WER is unchanged, UTMOS drops ~0.1 [p]", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-shrank-our-steerable-small-tts-to-11-84-mb-wer-is-unchanged-utmos-drops-0-1-p", "canonical_source": "https://aiflash.com/news/139466/", "published_at": "2026-10-25 21:00:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-25 21:11:30.988235+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["WhissleAI", "SteerTTS v1", "SteerTTS Edge"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-shrank-our-steerable-small-tts-to-11-84-mb-wer-is-unchanged-utmos-drops-0-1-p", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-shrank-our-steerable-small-tts-to-11-84-mb-wer-is-unchanged-utmos-drops-0-1-p.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-shrank-our-steerable-small-tts-to-11-84-mb-wer-is-unchanged-utmos-drops-0-1-p.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-shrank-our-steerable-small-tts-to-11-84-mb-wer-is-unchanged-utmos-drops-0-1-p.jsonld"}}