The A.I. Daily
SteerTTS Edge Released at 11.84 MB with Unchanged WER
WhissleAI released SteerTTS Edge, an 11.84 MB complete TTS package. Using int4 quantization-aware training and distillation, WER remains 0.96% while UTMOS drops ~0.1 to 4.11. All 12 steering controls retain ≥95% effect. On a 2018 Threadripper CPU, it achieves RTF 0.053 (~19x realtime) and ~120 ms to first audio.