Bark Small TTS
A distilled 150M version of Suno's Bark that trades some fidelity for roughly twice the speed and half the memory.
Bark Small is Suno's distilled, lightweight take on Bark, shrinking the model to 150M parameters. It keeps Bark's signature ability to produce emotional speech, laughter, and multilingual output across the same 13+ languages, but generates noticeably faster (~8s versus ~15s) and fits in about 2GB of VRAM. The cost is some audio quality, so it works best as the go-to when full Bark is too slow for a creative task but you still want its expressive, sound-rich character. Like full Bark it caps at 200 characters per generation and does not support voice cloning.
At a glance
- Developer
- Suno
- License
- MIT
- Tier
- standard
- Speed
- medium
- Voice cloning
- No
- Languages
- English, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
- Max characters
- 200
Bark Small AI Voices
Best for
Quick creative audio when full Bark is too slow
Bark Small TTS — FAQ
Bark Small is a distilled 150M-parameter version (versus 350M for full Bark). It runs faster — around 8 seconds per clip in ~2GB VRAM — at the cost of some audio quality, while keeping the same emotional and multilingual abilities.
Yes. Like full Bark, Bark Small is MIT-licensed and free for commercial use.
Choose Bark Small for quick, creative, emotive snippets when full Bark is too slow. Both share a 200-character cap, the same 13+ languages, and neither supports voice cloning.