---
license: openrail
language:
- en
- ja
- zh
- ko
- es
- fr
- de
- multilingual
library_name: ai-edge-litert
tags:
- litert
- tflite
- tensorflow-lite
- text-to-speech
- tts
- audio
- diffusion
- flow-matching
- on-device
- mobile
- android
- int4
- int8
- weight-only-quantization
- quantized
pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
base_model: Supertone/supertonic-3
base_model_relation: quantized
---

# Supertonic-3 — LiteRT (.tflite, INT4) + ONNX vector_estimator

LiteRT / TensorFlow Lite conversion of [Supertone/supertonic-3](https://huggingface.co/Supertone/supertonic-3),
a 99M-parameter multilingual TTS model. 3 of the 4 components convert
cleanly to true INT4 weight-only quantization via Google's
[ai-edge-quantizer](https://github.com/google-ai-edge/ai-edge-quantizer)
and run on the [`ai_edge_litert`](https://github.com/google-ai-edge/litert)
runtime. `vector_estimator` (the diffusion denoiser) is kept as ONNX —
its rotary multi-head attention defeats onnx2tf's NCW↔NHWC shape
inference, and `litert_torch.convert` deadlocks in MLIR lowering when
fed the model with loaded weights. The ONNX VE is shipped in both fp32
(`vector_estimator.onnx`) and **INT8 dynamic quantization**
(`vector_estimator_int8.onnx`, 65 MB) — INT8 is the recommended config.

## Configurations

| Config | Components | Size | Notes |
| --- | --- | ---: | --- |
| **int4 + INT8 VE (recommended)** | `int4/{dp,te}.tflite` + `vector_estimator_int8.onnx` + `int8/vocoder.tflite` | **106 MB** | smallest viable; **65% smaller than fp32 VE config** |
| int4 + fp32 VE | `int4/{dp,te}.tflite` + `vector_estimator.onnx` + `int8/vocoder.tflite` | 310 MB | larger but auditory-identical to INT8 VE |
| fp32 | `fp32/{dp,te,vocoder}.tflite` + `vector_estimator.onnx` | 398 MB | float reference |

| Component file | Size |
| --- | ---: |
| `fp32/duration_predictor.tflite` | 4 MB |
| `fp32/text_encoder.tflite` | 37 MB |
| `fp32/vocoder.tflite` | 101 MB |
| `int4/duration_predictor.tflite` | 2.5 MB |
| `int4/text_encoder.tflite` | 13 MB |
| `int8/vocoder.tflite` (recommended) | 26 MB |
| **`vector_estimator_int8.onnx` (recommended)** | **65 MB** |
| `vector_estimator.onnx` (full fp32) | 256 MB |

## Quickstart

```bash
pip install ai-edge-litert onnxruntime soundfile numpy supertonic
git clone https://huggingface.co/Reza2kn/supertonic-3-litert
cd supertonic-3-litert

# Recommended INT4 + INT8 VE config (default)
python inference.py --text "Hello, world." --voice F1 --out hello.wav

# Long prompt — use --auto-pad for full content rendering
python inference.py \
  --text "<longer prompt>" \
  --voice F5 --auto-pad --out long.wav

# Explicit FP32 baseline (uses fp32 vector_estimator.onnx)
python inference.py --text "Hello" --dp-quant fp32 --te-quant fp32 --voc-quant fp32 --ve-fp32
```

10 voice styles ship in `voice_styles/`: F1–F5 (female), M1–M5 (male).
31 languages supported via `unicode_indexer.json`.

## ⚠️ Known limitation: rushed pacing on long prompts (vs CoreML build)

The supertonic-3 model has a soft content cap per utterance (~13.7 s of
speech for the included long_en_F5 prompt). The LiteRT pipeline runs
`vector_estimator` at native input shapes via ONNX Runtime, which
respects the model's hard limit and **truncates** long prompts.

The [CoreML build of this same model](https://huggingface.co/Reza2kn/supertonic-3-coreml)
benefits from an accidental "bucket-leak" in the CoreML conversion
(padded latent positions leak through ConvNeXt's dilated convolutions),
which extends content by ~3 s and gives more natural pacing. **This
extension does not exist in LiteRT** — we tested padding the ONNX VE
inputs to the same bucket: 13.00s → 13.05s (essentially no extension).

In practice:
- Short prompts (under ~10 s of speech): fine.
- Long prompts (over ~13 s): LiteRT will sound rushed and may truncate
  the last words. Use the CoreML build for those if you're on Apple.

`--auto-pad` is still useful — it appends a filler sentence that the
model partially renders, then trims at the silence gap. It recovers
some content but cannot match CoreML's bucket-leak extension.

## Conversion pipeline

```
Supertone/supertonic-3 (ONNX)
  -> onnxsim.simplify (T=L=320)
  -> fuse_gelu (Div/Erf/Add/Mul/Mul -> ONNX Gelu opset 20)
  -> onnx2tf -kt -coion (TF SavedModel)
  -> tf.lite.TFLiteConverter (fp32 .tflite)
  -> ai-edge-quantizer weight_only_wi4_afp32() (true INT4)
  -> ai_edge_litert.Interpreter at runtime

vector_estimator:
  -> onnxruntime.quantization.quantize_dynamic(QInt8, per_channel=True)
     (4× compression, kept ONNX because onnx2tf/litert_torch both
      fail on the rotary multi-head attention)
```

The **GELU fuse** is the key unlock for INT4 LiteRT. Without it,
`onnx2tf` emits FlexErf ops which disqualify the model from
`ai_edge_litert` (the runtime that supports INT4). Replacing the
Erf-based GELU expansion with a single ONNX `Gelu` op (opset 20) keeps
the model in pure-TFLite ops and unblocks INT4 inference.

`vector_estimator` is kept as ONNX because onnx2tf's transpose
optimization breaks rotary attention masking, and `litert_torch.convert`
deadlocks on its loaded weights. INT8 dynamic quantization via
`onnxruntime.quantization.quantize_dynamic` works cleanly on Conv +
MatMul ops and gives 4× compression with audio-identical output to fp32.

## License

OpenRAIL — same as the original Supertone/supertonic-3.

## Credits

- Original model: [Supertone/supertonic-3](https://huggingface.co/Supertone/supertonic-3)
- LiteRT conversion + auto-pad workflow: this repo
- Companion CoreML build: [Reza2kn/supertonic-3-coreml](https://huggingface.co/Reza2kn/supertonic-3-coreml)
- Quantization: [`ai-edge-quantizer`](https://github.com/google-ai-edge/ai-edge-quantizer), `onnxruntime.quantization`
- Runtime: [`ai_edge_litert`](https://github.com/google-ai-edge/litert), `onnxruntime`