audio.cpp 0.4 adds 5 speech models and reports up to 37% VRAM savings
Acceptable-Cycle4645 · reddit · 2026-07-24
audio.cpp 0.4 adds several new speech models and makes GGUF a first-class format across the project.
- New support includes Higgs Audio v3 TTS 4B, Fish Audio S2 Pro, Voxtral Realtime ASR, plus community ports OuteTTS and VieNeu-TTS-v3.
- The project now supports 35 model families, and every released family now has GGUF packages.
- Benchmarks on an RTX 5090 suggest Q8 GGUF can deliver real gains: Higgs Audio TTS runs about 8.8×–10.1× real time on warmed requests, Fish Audio S2 Pro about 3.1×–3.4×, and Voxtral ASR about 15.7× with streaming TTFT around 171 ms.
- Compared with 16-bit GGUF, Q8 can be up to 1.5× faster and cut peak VRAM by up to 37%, though quality remains model-dependent.
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