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gepard-1.0

by NineNineSix nineninesix/gepard-1.0

GEnerative, Prosody-aware, Autoregressive text-to-speech model for Realtime Dialogue Gepard is a text-to-speech model built for real-time conversation.

Parameters556M
Context262,144
Weights1.1 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads69.2k

Runs On

What it takes to serve gepard-1.0 (556M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 1.1 GB 1.3 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.6 GB 0.7 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.3 GB 0.3 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

Model Card

By NineNineSix, published under apache-2.0, revision 440c3a27797e.

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Gepard

[!IMPORTANT] 2026-08-06 — updated stop_head weights. Every other parameter is unchanged. This fixes premature stopping: multi-sentence inputs are now carried through to the end instead of cutting off at the first sentence boundary, and the effective duration ceiling is lifted. Short-phrase behaviour is unaffected.

GEnerative, Prosody-aware, Autoregressive text-to-speech model for Realtime Dialogue

Gepard is a text-to-speech model built for real-time conversation. It starts speaking the moment text begins arriving, generating audio piece by piece instead of waiting for a full sentence — so it feels like a live voice, not a recording. It's a single language model that learned text and speech together, so the output carries natural rhythm and timing rather than the flat, stitched tone of older pipelines.

The name evokes "Gepard"(/geh-PART/), German for cheetah — a nod to the model's low-latency, high-throughput streaming.

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Configuration

Architecture
Qwen3_5ForCausalLM
Context length (tokens)
262,144
Layers
14
Hidden size
1,024
Feed-forward size
3,584
Attention heads
8
Key/value heads
2
Head dimension
256
Vocabulary size
248,320
Model type
qwen3_5_text

Identity and Version

Repository
nineninesix/gepard-1.0
Publisher
NineNineSix
Task
Text to speech
Modality
Audio
Library
transformers
Parameters
556M parameters
Languages
en, es, pt, nl
Revision
440c3a27797e98673c8e56f0569a86c09ea5de34
First published
2026-06-22
Last updated
2026-09-10

Files and Weights

11 files, 1.1 GB in total. The weights are 2 files totalling 1.1 GB in pt, safetensors.

Weights2 files · 1.1 GB
Configuration2 files · 5.8 KB
Tokenizer2 files · 20.0 MB
Documentation2 files · 25.4 KB
Other2 files · 2.5 MB
Repository1 file · 1.7 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
after_DPO_stop_head.ptWeights4.0 KB fff769159daa
model.safetensorsWeights1.1 GB 119651934205
config.jsonConfiguration1.4 KB
gepard_config.jsonConfiguration4.5 KB
LICENSEDocumentation11.3 KB
README.mdDocumentation14.1 KB
gepard_techreport.pdfOther1.9 MB 0f8dc388ac3b
logo.pngOther584.9 KB 9a91aa495cb4
.gitattributesRepository1.7 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer20.0 MB 87a7830d63fc
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer1.1 KB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
1.1 GB
Download from NineNineSix

Released by NineNineSix through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

  • Derived from nineninesix/qwen3_5-full-attn-only-14
  • Described by arXiv:2004.11362
  • Described by arXiv:2110.13900
  • Described by arXiv:2207.12598
  • Described by arXiv:2212.04356
  • Described by arXiv:2301.12597
  • Described by arXiv:2305.18290
  • Described by arXiv:2307.08691
  • Described by arXiv:2309.06180
  • Described by arXiv:2309.15505
  • Described by arXiv:2405.14734
  • Described by arXiv:2406.17957
  • Described by arXiv:2501.15907
  • Described by arXiv:2505.19462
  • Described by arXiv:2506.09827
  • Described by arXiv:2508.05835
  • Described by arXiv:2609.04222
  • Trained on (disclosed) laion/Emolia

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published1.1 GB
16-bit1.1 GB
8-bit0.6 GB
4-bit0.3 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About gepard-1.0

How much GPU memory does gepard-1.0 need?

About 1.3 GB at 16-bit and 0.3 GB at 4-bit: the weights (556M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run gepard-1.0 on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use gepard-1.0 commercially?

Yes. gepard-1.0 is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

What is gepard-1.0's context length?

262,144 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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