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★ Featured · Licensing · 10 min read

The Text-to-Speech (TTS) Barrier Was Never the Parameter Count

The model file was 38 megabytes. The stack I had to ship beside it, before a single word reached a speaker, was several times that.

By Rio Castellanos · August 2026

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