Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We are excited to launch a preview of our smallest model, which is less than 25 MB. This model has 15M parameters.This release supports English text-to-speech applications in eight voices: four male and four female. The model is quantized to int8 + fp16, and it uses onnx for runtime. The model is designed to run literally anywhere eg. raspberry pi, low-end smartphones, wearables, browsers etc. No GPU required!We&#x27;re releasing this to give early users a sense of the latency and voices that will be available in our next release (hopefully next week). We&#x27;d love your feedback! Just FYI, this model is an early checkpoint trained on less than 10% of our total data.We started working on this because existing expressive OSS models require big GPUs to run them on-device and the cloud alternatives are too expensive for high frequency use. We think there&#x27;s a need for frontier open-source models that are tiny enough to run on edge devices!

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Stasher is a tiny CLI tool that lets you share encrypted secrets that burn after reading — no accounts, no logins, no servers to trust.I built it because I just wanted to share a password. Not spin up infra. Not register for some &quot;secure&quot; web app. Not trust Slack threads. Just send a secret.Secrets are encrypted client-side with AES-256-GCM. You get a `uuid:key` token to share. Once someone reads it, it&#x27;s gone. If they don&#x27;t read it in 10 minutes, it expires and deleted.Everything is verifiable. Every release is signed, SLSA-attested, SBOM-included, and logged in the Rekor transparency log. Every line of code is public.There&#x27;s also a browser-based companion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.stasher.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.stasher.dev</a> — works in a sandboxed popup using the same encrypted model. Share from the terminal, pick up in the browser.No data stored unencrypted. No metadata. No logs. No surveillance.---GitHub (CLI): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stasher-dev&#x2F;stasher-cli" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stasher-dev&#x2F;stasher-cli</a> 
GitHub (App): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stasher-dev&#x2F;stasher-app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stasher-dev&#x2F;stasher-app</a> 
API (Cloudflare Worker): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stasher-dev&#x2F;stasher-api" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stasher-dev&#x2F;stasher-api</a> 
CI&#x2F;CD (Open): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stasher-dev&#x2F;stasher-ci" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stasher-dev&#x2F;stasher-ci</a> 
NPM: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;stasher-cli" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;stasher-cli</a> 
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