Text to speech (and sound effects) · bark
BK Can I run Bark? Pick your device.
Bark is a 900M Text to speech (and sound effects). Realistic peak is ~5 GB of memory at fp32. It runs on CPU, so most desktop and laptop machines can run it; pick your hardware below.
Apple Silicon Macs
- Apple M1 (8GB) Tight
- Apple M2 (16GB) Yes
- Apple M4 (16GB) Yes
- Apple M5 (16GB) Yes
- Apple M3 Pro (18GB) Yes
- Apple M4 (24GB) Yes
- Apple M4 Pro (24GB) Yes
- Apple M5 (32GB) Yes
- Apple M4 Pro (48GB) Yes
- Apple M5 Pro (48GB) Yes
- Apple M4 Max (64GB) Yes
- Apple M4 Max (128GB) Yes
- Apple M5 Max (128GB) Yes
- Apple M3 Ultra (256GB) Yes
RAM-only laptops
NVIDIA GPUs
AMD GPUs
Memory is a sourced peak-usage anchor at fp32, validated 2026-06-15. See methodology.