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F5 TTS
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RANKED #9 OF 20 AUDIO · OVERALL #234 OF 6,471 · VIBE SCORE 5.7 · 46 VOICES
f5-tts-GGUF on Hugging Face (text to speech). 1,926 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.8
10 mentions
SAD5.2
4 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 10 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download F5 TTS once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
385M parameters, checkpoint is about 1.5 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
12 GB VRAM
~$280 NEWFP16 full precision, standard NFE steps, fast zero-shot cloning
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
12 GB VRAM
~$530 NEWFP16, Sway Sampling, instant multi-character voice generation
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
24 GB VRAM
~$1800 NEWFP16, batch voice synthesis, full local fine-tuning support
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN F5 TTS?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long F5 TTS takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Narrate a scripta minute of spoken audio | ~15 S★★★★★ | ~9 S★★★★★ | ~5 S★★★★★ |
| Transcribe a recordinga ten minute recording turned into text | ~2.5 MIN★★★★★ | ~86 S★★★★★ | ~50 S★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about F5 TTS yet to call it. We found 46 posts but people did not say much either way.
40 POSTS · 6 COMMENTS · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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