VoxCPM2 — MLX int8 (group-quantised)

8-bit MLX-compatible quantization for Apple Silicon.

MLX port of openbmb/VoxCPM2 — a 2B-parameter multilingual diffusion-autoregressive TTS model with 48 kHz studio-quality output, voice cloning, and instruction-driven voice design.

Part of soniqo.audio — an on-device speech toolkit for Apple Silicon. Consumed by the open-source speech-swift library (module VoxCPM2TTS).

Bundle size: 2.95 GB

Use cases

• Speech generation — 48 kHz TTS with voice design and multilingual support.
• Voice cloning — reference-audio cloning + ultimate cloning (audio + transcript).
• CLI reference — speech speak --engine voxcpm2 ... flags.
• Getting started — install speech-swift on macOS / iOS.

Variants

Capabilities

• 30 languages including English, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean
• 48 kHz output
• Zero-shot synthesis — generate speech from text alone
• Voice cloning — clone a target speaker from a single reference clip
• Voice design — natural-language style control (e.g. "young female voice, warm and gentle")
• Ultimate cloning — reference audio + transcript for prosody-preserving cloning
• Streaming generation — patch-level decoding for low-latency synthesis

Quantization

• Format: MLX QuantizedLinear, 8 bits per element, group size 64, per-group scales and biases stored as float16.
• What is quantized: All Linear layers inside the LM backbones (base_lm, residual_lm), the DiT estimator decoder, feat_encoder.encoder, and the top-level projection heads (enc_to_lm_proj, lm_to_dit_proj, res_to_dit_proj, fusion_concat_proj, stop_proj, stop_head, fsq_layer.*, the time/delta-time MLPs).
• What stays bfloat16: All audio_vae.* weights, RMSNorm / LayerNorm gain tensors, RoPE lookup tables, Snake alpha, embedding tables, and 1-D parameters.
• Round-trip fidelity vs bf16: mean relative L2 error 0.53 %, worst-layer relative L2 0.78 % (stop_head).
• 40 % smaller than bf16 with negligible quality impact in practice.

Usage with speech-swift

This bundle is consumed by soniqo/speech-swift's VoxCPM2TTS Swift module.

import VoxCPM2TTS

let model = try await VoxCPM2TTSModel.fromPretrained(
    modelId: "aufklarer/VoxCPM2-MLX-int8"
)
let audio = try await model.generate(text: "Hello from VoxCPM2.", language: "english")

Or via the CLI:

speech speak "Hello from VoxCPM2." --engine voxcpm2 --voxcpm2-variant int8 -o hi.wav

Source

This bundle is converted from the upstream PyTorch weights at openbmb/VoxCPM2.

License

Apache 2.0 — inherited from the upstream openbmb/VoxCPM2 model.

Responsible use

Voice cloning capability is included. Users are responsible for obtaining consent for any voice that is cloned and for not using the model to impersonate individuals without their permission, generate disinformation, or commit fraud.