canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning — new model trending #30 on Hugging Face
EMA Lightning is an 8.6M-parameter Apache-2.0 Turkish TTS model reporting 0.92% WER on Freya-TR-Eval.
EMA Lightning is a new Apache 2.0 Turkish text-to-speech release: a 5.6M-parameter diffusion-transformer acoustic model plus a 3M-parameter vocoder, 8.6M parameters and about 34 MB total. On Freya-TR-Eval it reports 0.92% word error rate, lower than ElevenLabs v4, Gemini 3.8, and the 2.38B-parameter Trendyol-TTS. On an RTX 4090 it claims first audio in 3.86 ms and 440× real-time speed, or 1,316× with batching, with streaming, offline CPU or GPU inference, and roughly $0.0085 per million characters.
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