Inflect Micro v2 turns written text into spoken audio, start to finish, on a plain CPU. The whole model is 37 megabytes, and it still synthesizes about six times faster than real time, so a minute of narration takes about ten seconds on an ordinary machine. You get one fixed male English voice; there is no voice cloning and no reference audio to prepare, which is exactly what makes it a two-minute setup.
Two behaviors set it apart from other tiny speech models. It is deterministic: fix a seed number and the same sentence renders as the same audio every single time, so narration in an app or video stays stable across rebuilds instead of drifting. And it handles long text properly, splitting at punctuation and rejoining with natural pauses, so you can feed it pages rather than sentences. In a blind community listening test it was preferred 66.2 percent of the time over the established compact options like Piper and KittenTTS.