ema-lightning
Tiny, fast and accurate Turkish text-to-speech. 8.6M parameters, 0.92% WER on Freya-TR-Eval, first audio in ~4 ms and 1,300× real time on one GPU. Streams audio, batches many callers on one GPU, and runs offline on a GPU or CPU.
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Details
- External ID
- 1406339660
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- ema-lightning
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 145
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9149519890260631
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- voice AI models and infrastructure
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- fast turkish text-to-speech model for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Training and deploying an ultra-compact (8.6M parameter), high-accuracy, 1300x real-time streaming TTS neural network specifically for Turkish requires specialized deep learning audio research and custom model architecture design.
What it would actually take: Requires deep ML audio research using PyTorch, custom acoustic and vocoder architectures (such as lightweight VITS or diffusion/flow-matching variants), a high-quality annotated Turkish phoneme speech corpus, and specialized TensorRT/ONNX runtime optimization to achieve sub-4ms time-to-first-audio and high RTF throughput.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 114 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 115 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 274 days after the earliest competitor.
- Lightning V3 · ph · 2026-04-02 · 321 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- ito · github · 2026-10-02 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Orchard · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- persian_tts · github · 2026-09-16 · 125 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Inflect TTS v2+ONNX, 9M/4M text-to-speech models running in the browser · hn · 2026-07-26 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- RayCodes_sanoTTS · github · 2026-09-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- nemotron-asr-streaming-farsi · github · 2026-10-03 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- voisync-lite · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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