VORA-L1: Lightweight Edge-Deployable Text-to-Speech

SAGEA's cutting-edge TTS model for resource-constrained environments

Overview

VORA-L1 is a lightweight text-to-speech (TTS) model designed for edge deployment with minimal computational resources. Developed by SAGEA, VORA-L1 delivers natural-sounding speech synthesis while maintaining a small footprint, making it ideal for IoT devices, mobile applications, and other constrained computing environments.

Key Features

• Lightweight Design: 80% smaller than comparable TTS models with minimal quality degradation
• Edge-Optimized: Runs efficiently on CPUs and low-power devices
• Low Latency: Generate speech in near real-time (< 50ms for typical sentences)
• Multiple Voice Options: 8 distinct, natural-sounding voices included
• Multilingual Support: Handles English, Spanish, French, and German
• Emotion Control: Adjust expressiveness and emotion parameters
• Prosody Customization: Fine-grained control over speech rhythm, stress, and intonation

Technical Specifications

Specification	Value
Model Size	42 MB
Supported Platforms	iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, macOS
Minimum RAM	128 MB
Inference Time	0.3x realtime on Raspberry Pi 4
Audio Quality	16-bit, 22.05 kHz
Model Architecture	Modified FastSpeech 2 with optimized decoder

Edge Device Setup

# Raspberry Pi optimization example
from vora_tts import VORA
import sounddevice as sd

model = VORA.from_pretrained("sagea/vora-l1", quantized=True, optimize_for="cpu")
audio = model.synthesize("Edge computing is now more accessible.", voice="james")
sd.play(audio, samplerate=22050)

Running The model directly

from TTS.tts.configs.voraL1_config import VoraL1Config
from TTS.tts.models.voraL1 import VoraL1


config = VoraL1Config()
config.load_json("config.json") 


model = VoraL1.init_from_config(config)
model.load_checkpoint(config, checkpoint_dir="./", eval=True)
model.cuda()


outputs = model.synthesize(
    "It took me quite a long time to develop a voice and now that I have it I am not going to be silent.",
    config,
    speaker_wav="/data/TTS-public/_refclips/3.wav", 
    gpt_cond_len=3,
    language="en",
)


model.save_wav(outputs["wav"], "output/voraL1_output.wav")
print("✅ Audio saved to output/voraL1_output.wav")

Performance Benchmarks

Device	Inference Time	Memory Usage	Battery Impact
Raspberry Pi 4	0.3x realtime	110 MB	N/A
Android (SD 855)	0.15x realtime	92 MB	~1.2% per hour
AWS Lambda	0.05x realtime	78 MB	N/A

Limitations

• Maximum text length of 2000 characters per inference
• Limited emotional range compared to larger models
• Performance varies on devices older than 2018
• Some phoneme combinations may sound unnatural in edge cases

Citation

If you use VORA-L1, please cite our research:

@article{sagea2023vora,
  title={VORA-L1: Efficient Edge-Deployable Neural Text-to-Speech},
  author={SAGEA Research},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2023.12345},
  year={2023}
}

License

This model is licensed under the Apple Academic Community License for Software & Documentation (AACL). See LICENSE file for details.

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