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VITS CSS10 (French)
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VITS CSS10 (French) is an open-weights text-to-speech model from Coqui TTS / @NeonGeckoCom, released August 2022. Licence: bsd-3-clause.
Catalogue identity notes
Exact registry entry tts_models/fr/css10/vits. End-to-end waveform model. Model archive responded HTTP 200 to a HEAD request on 2026-09-29. CPU command documented by maintained Coqui TTS; phoneme models may require the espeak-ng system package. Memory is an estimated 4GB runtime budget, not measured usage. No original-paper MOS transferred to this separately trained checkpoint.
Model information sources
$ how it compares
Scored text-to-speech models released closest to VITS CSS10 (French), out of 148 with a score.
| # | model | score | where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 132 | Tortoise TTS v2 | 29±2 | local |
| 139 |  Bark | 25±3 | local |
| 140 |  SpeechT5 TTS | 23±3 | local |
| 143 | YourTTS | 18±3 | local |
| 147 | Glow-TTS Common Voice (Turkish) | 11±4 | local |
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$ where to run it
Other ways to run it
- Run it as published · needs ~4 GB · from github.com/idiap
uv run --python 3.11 --with 'coqui-tts[languages]' --with torch --with torchaudio --with torchcodec tts --model_name tts_models/fr/css10/vits --text "Bonjour le monde." --out_path speech.wav --device cpu
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