# Tagged english-tts

> Announcements and real-world deployments of AI, checked against their sources and scored: open-weights releases, decision models in the wild, and what is actually in use.

- [NineNineSix releases KaniTTS2-en, a 400M English TTS with voice cloning](https://shipped.anth.us/open-weights/nineninesix-kani-tts-2-en/index.md): KaniTTS2-en is a 400M English TTS on LFM2 350M with cloning via a speaker embedder, about 3 GB VRAM; LFM 1.0 licence. (2026-02-12)
- [Hume AI releases TADA-1B, an English TTS that aligns one speech vector per text token](https://shipped.anth.us/open-weights/humeai-tada-1b/index.md): TADA-1B is Hume AI's open English TTS built on Llama 3.2 1B, with 1:1 text-to-speech alignment; Llama 3.2 licence. (2026-01-12)
- [Soprano-80M: an 80M Apache 2.0 TTS that claims 2000x real time on GPU](https://shipped.anth.us/open-weights/ekwek-soprano-80m/index.md): Soprano-80M is a tiny English-only TTS with under 15 ms streaming latency on GPU, no cloning, Apache 2.0; superseded by Soprano 1.1. (2025-12-22)
- [Nari Labs releases Dia2-2B, a streaming English dialogue TTS under Apache 2.0](https://shipped.anth.us/open-weights/nari-labs-dia2-2b/index.md): Dia2-2B is a 2B English dialogue TTS that can start speaking before the full text arrives; Apache 2.0, about two minutes max. (2025-11-15)