sahilmahendrakar/paradee
An 8M-parameter English text-to-speech model distilled from Kokoro-82M. 9 MB, runs 18x real time on one CPU thread.
- Stars
- 119
- Forks
- 17
- Open issues
- 5
- Last push
- 7d ago
paradee star history
+18 this week
About paradee
paradee is a free, open-source AI voice and audio tool by sahilmahendrakar, written mainly in Python. An 8M-parameter English text-to-speech model distilled from Kokoro-82M. 9 MB, runs 18x real time on one CPU thread. It has 119 GitHub stars and 17 forks, and was last updated 7d ago. It's released under the Apache-2.0 license, a standard open-source license. According to the project, it works on macOS.
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Commercial use
- Commercial OK
- Language
- Python
- Stars
- 119
- Last update
- 7d ago
- Runs on Mac
- Yes (as stated by the project)
- GPU
- Not stated
- Paid API key
- Not stated
- Self-hostable
- Yes
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paradee FAQ
Can I use paradee commercially?
Yes. Apache-2.0 is a permissive license: commercial use is allowed as long as you keep the license notice. This is a plain-English summary, not legal advice.
Is paradee free?
Yes. paradee is open source and free to use. It's released under the Apache-2.0 license, a standard open-source license.
Does paradee run on a Mac?
Yes. According to the project, paradee works on macOS.
Does paradee need a GPU?
The project doesn't state hardware needs. AI models generally run much faster with a GPU.
Is paradee still maintained?
Yes. It was last updated 7d ago and has 5 open issues on GitHub.
What are alternatives to paradee?
Similar free, open-source tools include Speech, sherpa-onnx, index-tts, mlx-audio.
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