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Audio8 releases compact 0.6B TTS model with zero-shot voice cloning

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Audio8 has released a new text-to-speech model, Audio8 TTS Preview 0.6B, which is notable for its compact size and SOTA-class performance. Despite its 0.6 billion parameters, the model achieves competitive results on benchmarks, including the best English Word Error Rate (WER) on the Seed-TTS benchmark. It supports multilingual speech generation and zero-shot voice cloning, with plans for broader language support in future releases. AI

IMPACT This compact TTS model could enable more efficient deployment of high-quality speech generation in resource-constrained environments.

RANK_REASON Model release from a known AI lab (Audio8) with specific performance claims. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Audio8 releases compact 0.6B TTS model with zero-shot voice cloning

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  1. Hugging Face Trending Models TIER_1 English(EN) · Audio8 ·

    Audio8/Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b

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