diff --git a/examples/tts/tts.cpp b/examples/tts/tts.cpp
index 4cc42e1674ccc..4cd5c7fc4c454 100644
--- a/examples/tts/tts.cpp
+++ b/examples/tts/tts.cpp
@@ -128,6 +128,34 @@ static void twiddle(float * real, float * imag, int k, int N) {
     *imag = sin(angle);
 }
 
+struct theta {
+    theta() : cosine(0.0f), sine(0.0f) {}
+
+    void reset(int k, int N) {
+        twiddle(&cosine, &sine, k, N);
+    }
+
+    const float & get_cos() const {return cosine;}
+    const float & get_sin() const {return sine;}
+
+private:
+    float cosine;
+    float sine;
+};
+
+static std::vector<theta> thetas;
+
+static void fill_thetas(int N) {
+    thetas.resize(N);
+    for (int k = 0; k < N; ++k) {
+        thetas[k].reset(k, N);
+    }
+}
+
+static const theta& get_theta(int k) {
+    return thetas[k % thetas.size()];
+}
+
 static void irfft(int n, const float * inp_cplx, float * out_real) {
     int N = n / 2 + 1;
 
@@ -160,6 +188,19 @@ static void irfft(int n, const float * inp_cplx, float * out_real) {
     }
 }
 
+static void irfft_2(int n, const float * inp_cplx, float * out_real) {
+    int N = n / 2 + 1;
+
+    for (int k = 0; k < n; ++k) {
+        out_real[k] = 0.0f;
+        for (int m = 0; m < N; ++m) {
+            const theta & t = get_theta(k * m);
+            out_real[k] += inp_cplx[2 * m] * t.get_cos() - inp_cplx[2 * m + 1] * t.get_sin();
+        }
+        out_real[k] /= N;
+    }
+}
+
 //
 //  y = torch.nn.functional.fold(
 //       data, output_size=(1, output_size), kernel_size=(1, self.win_length), stride=(1, self.hop_length),
@@ -207,6 +248,8 @@ static std::vector<float> embd_to_audio(
     const int n_pad = (n_win - n_hop)/2;
     const int n_out = (n_codes - 1)*n_hop + n_win;
 
+    fill_thetas(n_fft);
+
     std::vector<float> hann(n_fft);
 
     fill_hann_window(hann.size(), true, hann.data());
@@ -248,11 +291,13 @@ static std::vector<float> embd_to_audio(
     std::vector<float> res  (n_codes*n_fft);
     std::vector<float> hann2(n_codes*n_fft);
 
+    const auto t_irfft_start = ggml_time_us();
+
     std::vector<std::thread> workers(n_thread);
     for (int i = 0; i < n_thread; ++i) {
         workers[i] = std::thread([&, i]() {
             for (int l = i; l < n_codes; l += n_thread) {
-                irfft(n_fft, ST.data() + l*n_embd, res.data() + l*n_fft);
+                irfft_2(n_fft, ST.data() + l*n_embd, res.data() + l*n_fft);
                 for (int j = 0; j < n_fft; ++j) {
                     res  [l*n_fft + j] *= hann[j];
                     hann2[l*n_fft + j]  = hann[j] * hann[j];
@@ -264,6 +309,8 @@ static std::vector<float> embd_to_audio(
         workers[i].join();
     }
 
+    LOG_INF("%s: time irfft:   %.3f ms\n", __func__, (ggml_time_us() - t_irfft_start) / 1000.0f);
+
     std::vector<float> audio;
     std::vector<float> env;