# Bark requirements

Updated: 2026-06-15

900M Text to speech (and sound effects), released 2023-04.

- Peak memory: ~5 GB at fp32
- Tools: HF Transformers, suno-ai/bark, BetterTransformer
- License: MIT (commercial use: yes)
- Runs on 25 of 39 tracked devices

Sources: https://huggingface.co/suno/bark, https://huggingface.co/blog/optimizing-bark, https://github.com/suno-ai/bark
More: https://localmodel.run/model/bark