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Silencio-2 TTS model released with emotion and sound tags

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A new open-weight Text-to-Speech model named Silencio-2 has been released, built upon Kyutai's Pocket TTS. This model, with 18.2 million parameters, can incorporate emotion and sound tags directly within the text to influence speech output. It achieves approximately 20x real-time performance on a CPU and supports features like voice cloning and various emotional and sound tags, though some tags like "whisper" are noted as less stable. AI

IMPACT Enables more expressive and nuanced speech generation in applications through integrated text-based controls.

RANK_REASON Release of a specific TTS model with new features.

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Silencio-2 TTS model released with emotion and sound tags

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/N1kuson ·

    Silencio-2: an 18M TTS with emotion and sound tags, ~20x realtime on CPU (open weights)

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I made this, so treat it as biased. It is free and open, with no paid tier or API behind it.</p> <p>Silencio-2 is a fine-tune of Kyutai's Pocket TTS 18M that follows tags written inside the text:</p> <pre><code>What a long day. [sigh] &lt;whisper…

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