Zyphra releases ZONOS3-Mini open-source text-to-speech model with voice cloning
Overview
Zyphra releases ZONOS3-Mini, an open-source text-to-speech model with voice cloning and word-level control, with open weights on Hugging Face and code on GitHub.
Zyphra says the model runs on-device and in real time, including on a phone, because it activates only part of the model at each generation step and uses a new audio codec that cuts speech tokens from 774 to 150 per second.
The model is also available through Zyphra Inference and a browser playground. Zyphra offers 20 hours of free audio to people who comment "ZONOS" within 2 days of its announcement post.
SGLang says SGLang-Omni runs ZONOS3-Mini on day 0. SGLang describes the model as an 800M-parameter mixture-of-experts system that activates 80M parameters per token, and says first audio streams back in 57 ms on one H100.
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Developments
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- Nov 9, 5:22 PM ET · 1 articleSGLang-Omni adds support for Zonos3-MiniSGLang: SGLang-Omni adds day-0 support for Zonos3-Mini voice-cloning TTS
- Nov 9, 5:07 PM ET · 1 articleZyphra releases ZONOS3-Mini, an Apache 2.0 on-device voice modelZyphra: Zyphra releases ZONOS3-Mini, an Apache 2.0 on-device voice model
- Nov 9, 5:07 PM ET · 1 articleZyphra explains ZONOS3-Mini's real-time speech generationZyphra: Zyphra's ZONOS3-Mini generates speech in real time using partial activation
- Nov 9, 5:07 PM ET · 1 articleZyphra reports local ZONOS3-Mini speech generation latencyZyphra: Zyphra reports ZONOS3-Mini speech generation on Pixel 9 and MacBook Air
- Nov 9, 5:07 PM ET · 2 articlesZyphra introduces ZONOS3-MiniZyphra: Zyphra introduces open-source ZONOS3-Mini text-to-speech model
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SGLang@sgl_projectOfficialSGLang-Omni adds day-0 support for Zonos3-Mini voice-cloning TTSAISGLang-Omni now runs Zyphra's Zonos3-Mini on day 0, according to SGLang. The 800M-parameter MoE text-to-speech model activates 80M parameters per token. On one H100, first audio streams back in 57 ms.

Zyphra@ZyphraAIOfficialZyphra releases ZONOS3-Mini, an Apache 2.0 on-device voice modelAIZyphra releases ZONOS3-Mini weights under Apache 2.0 for on-device use in games, narration tools, and assistant voices. It supports browser, native, and server runtimes, with day-zero SGLang support. Zyphra says it offers supported fine-tuned or post-trained versions for customers who contact the company directly.
Zyphra@ZyphraAIOfficialZyphra introduces ZONOS3-Mini, a voice model for charactersAIZyphra introduces ZONOS3-Mini, a voice model for giving characters a voice. The model is available through Zyphra Inference, a browser playground, and open weights on Hugging Face, with code on GitHub.

Zyphra@ZyphraAIOfficialZyphra's ZONOS3-Mini generates speech in real time using partial activationAIZyphra says ZONOS3-Mini activates only part of the model at each generation step. Its new audio codec reduces the tokens needed to represent speech from 774 to 150 per second, which the company says enables real-time generation across a wide range of hardware.
Zyphra@ZyphraAIOfficialZyphra reports ZONOS3-Mini speech generation on Pixel 9 and MacBook AirAIZyphra says its ZONOS3-Mini speech model runs locally on a Pixel 9 phone, with time to first audio under 800 ms. On an M3 MacBook Air in the browser, time to first audio is under 450 ms, and both devices generate speech in real time. Zyphra says it trained the model on NVIDIA H100s and serves it on H200s through Zyphra Inference.

Zyphra@ZyphraAIOfficialZyphra introduces open-source ZONOS3-Mini text-to-speech modelAIZyphra introduces ZONOS3-Mini, an open-source text-to-speech model with voice cloning and word-level control. The company says the model runs on-device and in real time, including on a phone. Zyphra offers 20 hours of free audio to people who comment "ZONOS" within 2 days.

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