Tagged "tts"
6 articles tagged tts, 23 February 2026 to 9 April 2026. Newest first.
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VoxCPM2: New Open-Source TTS Model with Voice Cloning and Design
VoxCPM2 enables local text-to-speech inference with three modes: voice design, controllable cloning, and ultimate cloning. The model supports sophisticated voice manipulation on consumer hardware.
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Kokoro TTS Achieves 20× Realtime Speed on CPU-Only On-Device Inference
A developer has successfully deployed Kokoro text-to-speech with 20× realtime performance using only CPU inference via MLX Swift on iOS, enabling high-quality, low-latency speech synthesis entirely on-device.
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Mistral AI Releases Voxtral: Open-Source TTS Model Beating ElevenLabs on Local Hardware
Mistral AI released Voxtral, a 3-4B parameter text-to-speech model with open weights that outperforms ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in human preference tests. The model runs efficiently on ~3GB RAM with 90ms time-to-first-audio latency and supports nine languages, making it ideal for on-device deployment.
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Fish Audio Open-Sources S2: Expressive Text-to-Speech with Natural Language Control and 100ms Latency
Fish Audio released S2, an open-source TTS model supporting 80+ languages, multi-speaker dialogue generation in a single pass, and natural language emotion tags for precise voice control, with sub-100ms time-to-first-audio.
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VoiceShelf: Fully Offline Android Audiobook Reader Using Kokoro TTS
A new Android application demonstrates on-device neural text-to-speech inference without cloud processing, enabling offline audiobook generation directly from EPUB files.
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Qwen3's Voice Embeddings Enable Local Voice Cloning and Mathematical Voice Manipulation
Qwen3's text-to-speech system uses 1024-dimensional voice embeddings (2048 for 1.7B models) that enable efficient local voice cloning and novel voice manipulation through mathematical operations on embedding vectors.