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Tencent releases open-source speech model AuK

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Tencent has released AuK, an open-source foundation model for speech generation and editing. This 1.5B parameter model is trained on extensive audio data and supports various tasks including zero-shot TTS, content editing, and speech enhancement through a natural language interface. AuK is available on Hugging Face and ModelScope, with support for inference via SGLang Omni. AI

IMPACT Enables new applications in speech generation and editing, potentially lowering barriers for developers.

RANK_REASON Open-source release of a foundation model by a major tech company. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Tencent releases open-source speech model AuK

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

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    text-to-speech · 179 downloads · 68 likes

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