Kyutai Pocket TTS
Kyutai Pocket TTS is a tiny streaming text-to-speech model: type a line in the public demo and hear a voice small enough to run on-device.
OUR TAKE
Pick Kyutai Pocket TTS for engineers who will run a small TTS on-device or poke the public demo. Demo quality and queue depend on Kyutai’s host.
Good fit
Engineers who will run a small TTS on-device or poke the public demo.
Poor fit
Marketers who need a credit-metered commercial VO (Listnr).
Self-host
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-27 · kyutai.org/tts
OUR TAKE
Pick Kyutai Pocket TTS for engineers who will run a small TTS on-device or poke the public demo. Demo quality and queue depend on Kyutai’s host.
Good fit
Engineers who will run a small TTS on-device or poke the public demo.
Poor fit
Marketers who need a credit-metered commercial VO (Listnr).
Self-host
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-27 · kyutai.org/tts
What it costs
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-27 · kyutai.org/tts
Self-host
Public research code/weights; you pay GPU/CPU
$0
Hosted demo
Not published by the vendor
Not published by the vendor
Checked 2026-10-27·kyutai.org/tts
Before you pay
Good fit
Engineers who will run a small TTS on-device or poke the public demo.
Poor fit
Marketers who need a credit-metered commercial VO (Listnr).
Watch out
Demo quality and queue depend on Kyutai’s host
Instead, try
Unmute if Kyutai’s conversational voice demo (MIT); Piper if local ONNX Speak desk (MIT $0)
Compare Kyutai Pocket TTS with
Limits, in full
- 01
Demo quality and queue depend on Kyutai’s host
- 02
Not a phone trunk or SLA
- 03
Unmute is the conversational product. ; this page is the TTS half.
If Kyutai Pocket TTS isn't it
Why: Kyutai’s conversational voice demo (MIT).
Free· open source,MIT
unmute.sh is a demoChecked 2026-10-27·github.com/kyutai-labs/unmute
vs Kyutai Pocket TTS
Why: local ONNX Speak desk (MIT $0).
Free· open source,MIT
Quality is “fast local,” not studio cloneChecked 2026-10-27·github.com/rhasspy/piper
vs Kyutai Pocket TTS
Why: 82M open-weight Gradio demo.
Free· open source,Apache-2.0
The public demo is English-firstChecked 2026-10-27·github.com/hexgrad/kokoro
vs Kyutai Pocket TTSLimits & alternatives3 limits · Unmute, Piper, Kokoro TTS instead
Limits, in full
- 01
Demo quality and queue depend on Kyutai’s host
- 02
Not a phone trunk or SLA
- 03
Unmute is the conversational product. ; this page is the TTS half.
If Kyutai Pocket TTS isn't it
Why: Kyutai’s conversational voice demo (MIT).
Free· open source,MIT
unmute.sh is a demoChecked 2026-10-27·github.com/kyutai-labs/unmute
vs Kyutai Pocket TTSWhy: local ONNX Speak desk (MIT $0).
Free· open source,MIT
Quality is “fast local,” not studio cloneChecked 2026-10-27·github.com/rhasspy/piper
vs Kyutai Pocket TTSWhy: 82M open-weight Gradio demo.
Free· open source,Apache-2.0
The public demo is English-firstChecked 2026-10-27·github.com/hexgrad/kokoro
vs Kyutai Pocket TTS