Zonos v0.1 Transformer — GGUF

GGUF conversion of Zyphra/Zonos-v0.1-transformer for use with CrispASR and CrisperWeaver.

Model

Zonos v0.1 is a ~500M-parameter text-to-speech model trained on 200k+ hours of multilingual speech. It delivers expressive, high-quality synthesis with fine-grained control over:

• Speaker cloning from a few seconds of reference audio
• Emotion control (happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, surprise, anger, neutral)
• Speaking rate (phonemes/second)
• Pitch variation (pitch standard deviation)
• Audio quality (fmax parameter)

Output is native 44.1 kHz mono PCM via a 9-codebook DAC decoder.

Architecture

1. Text input → eSpeak phonemization → phoneme embeddings
2. Prefix conditioner: concatenates conditioning embeddings (phonemes, speaker, emotion, fmax, pitch_std, rate, language) through projection + LayerNorm
3. AR backbone: 26-layer GPT-style transformer (d=2048, GQA 16q/4kv, SwiGLU, LayerNorm with bias, RoPE) generates 9 interleaved DAC codebook streams with delay pattern
4. Classifier-free guidance (CFG): both conditioned and unconditioned prefixes are decoded; logits are interpolated with configurable scale (default 2.0)
5. DAC decoder: separate GGUF converts 9-codebook RVQ codes → 44.1 kHz PCM

Files

Required companion

Zonos needs the DAC 44.1 kHz decoder GGUF for audio output. Use dac-44khz.gguf from cstr/dia-1.6b-GGUF (same codec, shared between Zonos and Dia backends).

Usage

CrispASR CLI

# Download
crispasr -m auto --backend zonos

# Synthesize
crispasr --backend zonos \
 -m zonos-v0.1-transformer-q4_k.gguf \
 --tts-codec dac-44khz.gguf \
 --tts "Hello, this is a test of the Zonos text to speech system." \
 -o output.wav

# With emotion control
crispasr --backend zonos \
 -m zonos-v0.1-transformer-q4_k.gguf \
 --tts-codec dac-44khz.gguf \
 --tts "I'm so happy to see you!" \
 --emotion "0.8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.2" \
 -o happy.wav

# With voice cloning
crispasr --backend zonos \
 -m zonos-v0.1-transformer-f16.gguf \
 --tts-codec dac-44khz.gguf \
 --voice reference.wav \
 --tts "Cloned voice output." \
 -o cloned.wav

CrisperWeaver (Flutter GUI)

Download from Model Management, select on the Synthesize screen, and set dac-44khz.gguf as the codec companion.

C API

#include "crispasr.h"

// Open session
crispasr_session* s = crispasr_session_open("zonos-v0.1-transformer-q4_k.gguf", "zonos");
crispasr_session_set_codec_path(s, "dac-44khz.gguf");

// Configure (optional)
crispasr_session_set_temperature(s, 0.7);

// Synthesize
int n_samples;
float* pcm = crispasr_session_synthesize(s, "Hello world", &n_samples);
// ... write pcm to WAV ...
free(pcm);
crispasr_session_free(s);

Conditioning Parameters

Conversion

Converted from the upstream PyTorch checkpoint using:

python models/convert-zonos-to-gguf.py \
 --input Zyphra/Zonos-v0.1-transformer \
 --output zonos-v0.1-transformer-f16.gguf

Quantised with:

crispasr-quantize zonos-v0.1-transformer-f16.gguf zonos-v0.1-transformer-q4_k.gguf q4_k

License

Apache 2.0 (same as Zyphra/Zonos-v0.1-transformer).

Links

• Upstream model: Zyphra/Zonos-v0.1-transformer
• Blog post: zyphra.com/post/beta-release-of-zonos-v0-1
• Engine: CrispASR
• App: CrisperWeaver

Base model

Zyphra/Zonos-v0.1-transformer

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