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llama.cpp/tools/tts
6e62ba5384 mtmd: support pocket-tts (#26871)
* adapt the api

* text model ok

* working impl, need verify and clean up

* mtmd: build the pocket-tts transposed convolutions as GEMM + col2im

ggml_conv_transpose_1d has no grouped mode, so the depthwise upsample
was built as one convolution and one concat per channel, which floods
the graph with small nodes and makes kernel launches dominate the
decoder.

Fold both cases into the column form the seanet decoder already needs:
the general case reshapes the kernel to [IC, K * OC] and matmuls it
with the input, the depthwise case batches a matmul over the channels
so a step scales its own kernel. A single col2im_1d then scatter-adds
the columns back to the signal, with the same shape as before, so the
overlap-add tail, the streaming state and the bias are untouched.

Generation time per frame drops by 80% on CUDA and by 50% on CPU. The
output matches the previous implementation sample for sample, with a
correlation of 0.999994 and identical frame counts.

* flow_temp +  frames_after_eos

* chunking

* mtmd: carry the remaining pocket-tts per-pack settings

The language packs also tune the end-of-speech padding and the padding
of short prompts, next to the temperature already carried in the
mmproj: french_24l asks for 8 tail frames instead of the guessed 3,
english_2026-01 asks for short prompts to be padded with spaces.

Write both in the mmproj as clip.gen.audio.frames_after_eos and
clip.gen.audio.pad_short_text, keyed on the pack in the conversion
script like the temperature. The loader keeps them optional, so a
mmproj without them behaves as before. Map semicolons to commas for
every pack instead, the reference only asks for it on three of them and
it costs nothing elsewhere.

Existing mmproj files must be converted again to carry the two keys.

On a long french text the port now lands within 2% of the reference:
22.96s against 23.44s, with the same peak level and the same amount of
silence.

* clip.gen.audio.model_variant

* clean up code comments

* nit: drop the dead flow_temp hparam, the pack table holds the default

* update docs

* address security problems

* less invasive base.py

* lint

* add mtmd_gen_inp_default

* add docs

* rm gen_flow_temp

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Co-authored-by: Pascal <admin@serveurperso.com>
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llama.cpp TTS

This is a tool to demonstrate audio generation capability in llama.cpp via libmtmd. It was added via PR #26254

Note: this tool used to serve as a demo for OuteTTS, but it was converted to a more model-agnostic tool.

Common usage

Simple usage:

llama-tts -hf ggml-org/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-GGUF -p "Hello world" --output out.wav

Common params:

  • Sampling params such as --top-k, --top-p, --temp, etc.
  • -n <number_of_frames> limits the output length, e.g. -n 500. Note that how many milliseconds each frame represents varies by model
  • Core inference params such as -ngl, -b, -ub, etc.

Qwen3-TTS

Available params:

  • --tts-lang can be zh, en, de, it, pt, es, ja, ko, fr, ru (default: en)
  • --tts-speaker-file should point to a speaker reference audio file (wav, mp3)

Example usage:

llama-tts -hf ggml-org/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-GGUF \
    -p "Hello world" \
    --tts-lang english \
    --tts-speaker-file speaker.mp3 \
    --output out.wav

Pocket TTS

Available params:

  • --tts-speaker-file should point to a speaker reference audio file (wav, mp3). It is required, the model produces almost no audio without it
  • Note: lang is not used, the language is a property of the weights

Example usage:

llama-tts -m pocket-tts.gguf \
    -mm mmproj-pocket-tts.gguf \
    -p "Hello world" \
    --tts-speaker-file speaker.mp3 \
    --output out.wav

Note for GGUF conversion:

The upstream repository holds one complete model per language under languages/, next to a set of shared files at the root. Convert one of the languages/<name> directories, not the root directory:

python convert_hf_to_gguf.py path/to/pocket-tts/languages/english --outfile pocket-tts.gguf
python convert_hf_to_gguf.py path/to/pocket-tts/languages/english --mmproj --outfile mmproj-pocket-tts.gguf