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# Paradee-8M Pt-BR (Brazilian Portuguese)
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**Paradee-8M Pt-BR** is an ultra-lightweight Text-to-Speech (TTS) model for Brazilian Portuguese, with **7.88M parameters**, distilled from the Brazilian Portuguese voices of [Kokoro-82M](https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M) (`pf_dora` and `pm_alex`) using the architecture of [Paradee-8M v1.2](https://huggingface.co/sahilmahendrakar/Paradee-8M-v1.2) by Sahil Mahendrakar
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- **Ultra-lightweight:** The quantized `int8` ONNX model is only **8.46 MB** per voice (compared to >325 MB for Kokoro).
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- **Extremely fast:** Runs **~25x to 50x faster than real-time on a single CPU thread** (no GPU required). One second of speech is generated in ~20–40 ms.
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title = {Paradee: Distilling Kokoro-82M into an 8M-Parameter Single-Voice Text-to-Speech Model},
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author = {Mahendrakar, Sahil},
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year = {2026},
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url = {https://huggingface.co/sahilmahendrakar/Paradee-8M-v1.0}
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**Paradee-8M Pt-BR** is an ultra-lightweight Text-to-Speech (TTS) model for Brazilian Portuguese, with **7.88M parameters**, distilled from the Brazilian Portuguese voices of [Kokoro-82M](https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M) (`pf_dora` and `pm_alex`) using the architecture of [Paradee-8M v1.2](https://huggingface.co/sahilmahendrakar/Paradee-8M-v1.2) by Sahil Mahendrakar and the paper
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[Paradee: Distilling Kokoro-82M into an 8M-Parameter Single-Voice Text-to-Speech Model](https://huggingface.co/papers/2610.06817) .
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- **Ultra-lightweight:** The quantized `int8` ONNX model is only **8.46 MB** per voice (compared to >325 MB for Kokoro).
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- **Extremely fast:** Runs **~25x to 50x faster than real-time on a single CPU thread** (no GPU required). One second of speech is generated in ~20–40 ms.
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