# Supertonic TTS

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Supertonic TTS and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a very fast, tiny open-source text-to-speech model that runs well on CPU. Critics say its audio quality is only decent for its speed and it lacks extra features.

## Why people recommend it

- Very fast, even on CPU (4 comments): "it was by far the fastest, but its audio quality for something so fast was decent" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748163)) "I was getting about 175x real time while on cpu only it was 55x realtime" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736288)) "The model is tiny, runs 55x real time on any potato and sounds amazing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733066))
- Tiny, runs on modest hardware (3 comments): "The model is tiny, runs 55x real time on any potato and sounds amazing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733066)) "Supertonic fits under 300mb ram, and is fine for my uses." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860424)) "Its light weight and can run on web inference." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246218))
- Newer versions well regarded (3 comments): "Supertonic 3 is another great model in the same weight class" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830559)) "Multilingual and local? Try out Supertonic 2." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305314)) "Supertonic 3 is pretty amazing too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830831))

## What people warn about

- Audio quality only decent (1 comments): "it was by far the fastest, but its audio quality for something so fast was decent" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748163))
- Lacks extra features (1 comments): "it didnt have the other bells and whistles like some other models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733500))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [ElevenLabs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/elevenlabs.md): 59 recommend
- [Kokoro TTS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kokoro-tts.md): 59 recommend
- [Pocket TTS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pocket-tts.md): 41 recommend
- [Qwen3-TTS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen3-tts.md): 41 recommend
- [Kitten TTS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kitten-tts.md): 33 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Supertonic TTS", https://hackerapproved.com/p/supertonic/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).