<story><title>BASE TTS: The largest text-to-speech model to-date</title><url>https://amazon-ltts-paper.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qwertox</author><text>Interesting. Just a couple of hours ago I came across MetaVoice-1B [0] (Demo [1]) and was amazed by the quality of their TTS in English (sadly no other languages available).&lt;p&gt;If this year becomes the year when high quality Open Source TTS and ASR models appear that can run in real-time on an Nvidia RTX 40x0 or 30x0, then that would be great. On CPU even better.&lt;p&gt;Also note the Ethical Statement on BASE TTS:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; An application of this model can be to create synthetic voices of people who have lost the ability to speak due to accidents or illnesses, subject to informed consent and rigorous data privacy reviews. However, due to the potential misuse of this capability, we have decided against open-sourcing this model as a precautionary measure.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;metavoiceio&amp;#x2F;metavoice-src&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;metavoiceio&amp;#x2F;metavoice-src&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ttsdemo.themetavoice.xyz&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ttsdemo.themetavoice.xyz&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>BASE TTS: The largest text-to-speech model to-date</title><url>https://amazon-ltts-paper.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>The emotion examples are interesting. One of the current most obvious indicators of AI-generated voices&amp;#x2F;voice cloning is a lack of emotion and range, which make them objectively worse compared to professional voice actors, unless a lack of emotion and range is the desired voice direction.&lt;p&gt;But if you listen to the emotion examples, the range essentially what you&amp;#x27;d get from an audiobook narrator, not more traditional voice acting.</text></comment>