Paradee: Distilling Kokoro-82M into an 8M-Parameter Single-Voice Text-to-Speech Model.

arXiv:2610.06817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We distill Kokoro-82M, a widely used open text-to-speech model with 54 voices, into Paradee, an 8.07M-parameter model that speaks one of them. Paradee keeps Kokoro's architecture with much narrower layers, and