MLX Community · First MLX build 4 Apr 2026

kitten-tts-mini

MLX Audio apache-2.0

A 74M parameter text to speech model, with one MLX build.

Hugging Face
Parameters
74M
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
Unstated
kitten-tts-mini
Memory needed
3 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
289 MB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
14
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text to speech
Audio
MLX builds
1
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.

Run it

Terminal · Hugging Face CLI
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/kitten-tts-mini

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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kitten-tts-mini Unstated 289 MB 3 GB 14

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.