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Boson AI releases Higgs Audio v3 TTS for conversational voice chat

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Boson AI has released Higgs Audio v3 TTS, a text-to-speech model designed for conversational voice chat. The model supports over 100 languages, offering zero-shot voice cloning and fine-grained control over emotion, style, and prosody. It utilizes an autoregressive decoder with interleaved text and audio tokens, encoding audio into codebooks for processing. While released for research, commercial use requires a separate license, with strict prohibitions against unlawful applications. AI

IMPACT Provides advanced conversational TTS capabilities for research and potential commercial applications.

RANK_REASON Model release from a non-frontier lab with research license. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Boson AI releases Higgs Audio v3 TTS for conversational voice chat

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