Wave of tiny TTS releases: 8M-param Paradee hits 0.69% WER on Open TTS Leaderboard
LysandreJik · x · 2026-11-11
A cluster of lightweight TTS models just shipped: Paradee v1.3, ZONOS3-Mini (Zyphra), PiVo (Empero), phonon (Gradium), and Underdog-Woof.
Highlights from the Hugging Face Open TTS Leaderboard (English, WER averaged over Seed-TTS/CV3-Eval/MiniMSK):
- Paradee-8M-v1.3: 8M params, 0.69% WER, RTFx 33.1, Apache 2.0
- phonon-31m/40m: 0.73/0.74% WER, UTMOS 4.45, streaming + voice cloning
- PiVo-1.4M: only 1.4M params, TTFA P95 of 6.3ms
- ZONOS3-Mini: 800M params, 9 languages
All are available for side-by-side listening on the Open TTS Leaderboard.
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