maneko — quantized TTS weights

Ready-to-run quantized weights for maneko, a Rust/Candle TTS engine, so you don't have to quantize locally. Two model families, each self-contained.

pocket-tts/ — pocket-tts v2, Q8_0

Q8_0 quantizations of the pocket-tts v2 per-language models (a derivative of kyutai/pocket-tts). One GGUF per language:

pocket-tts/languages/<lang>/model.q8.gguf
  english  english_2026-01  english_2026-04
  german   german_24l   french_24l   italian  italian_24l
  portuguese  portuguese_24l  spanish  spanish_24l

• What's quantized: Linear weights → Q8_0; conv / norm / embedding / bias kept F16 (the source dtype, so dequant→f32 is numerically identical). ~1.6–1.8× smaller than the f16 source (6-layer ~121–137 MB, 24-layer _24l ~351 MB).
• Quality: Q8_0 is transparent — word-for-word identical to f32 on Whisper round-trips where decoding is deterministic, and indistinguishable native speech at normal temperature.
• Voices: the upstream per-language built-in voices work (the engine imports their precomputed model_state). Native voices: juergen (de), lola (es), estelle (fr), giovanni (it), rafael (pt); the rest are English.

Usage (maneko)

let model = pocket::TTSModel::load_gguf("german_24l", "pocket-tts/languages/german_24l/model.q8.gguf")?;

irodori-tts/ — Irodori v3 (Japanese, 48 kHz)

A self-contained bundle for the Irodori engine — q8 DiT + f16 codec + tokenizer, so maneko needs no third-party repo at runtime:

irodori-tts/
  model.q8.gguf            # v3 DiT — Q8_0 Linear weights (F16 elsewhere), ~610 MB
  dacvae.f16.safetensors   # Semantic-DACVAE codec, f16, ~215 MB
  tokenizer.json           # llm-jp tokenizer (unmodified)

• DiT — Q8_0 quantization of the Irodori v3 DiT (derivative of Aratako/Irodori-TTS-500M-v3), ~4× smaller than f32. v3's integrated duration predictor auto-lengths each clip (no manual seconds).
• DACVAE — f16 of the Semantic-DACVAE-Japanese codec (Aratako/Semantic-DACVAE-Japanese-32dim), half the f32 size. maneko runs it f16 on Metal, f32 on CPU.
• Quality: q8 DiT + f16 codec are transparent on a Whisper round-trip vs the f32 originals.

Usage (maneko)

let iro = irodori::Irodori::from_hf(&device)?; // pulls this irodori-tts/ bundle

License & attribution

Derivatives of permissively-licensed upstream models, redistributed with attribution:

• pocket-tts/ — quantized derivative of kyutai/pocket-tts, CC-BY-4.0 (released under the same).
• irodori-tts/ — derivatives of Aratako/Irodori-TTS-500M-v3 and Aratako/Semantic-DACVAE-Japanese-32dim (MIT), plus the unmodified llm-jp/llm-jp-3-150m tokenizer (Apache-2.0).

Each GGUF also carries general.{license,source.url,description} metadata.

Acceptable use: the upstream policies carry over — do not use these models for non-consensual voice cloning or impersonation.