Kokoro 82M is an 82-million-parameter text-to-speech model that beats many TTS APIs while running locally on CPUs, including ...

Open source TTS models Kokoro, Orpheus, and Piper are tested on symbols, abbreviations, and prosody with CER and MOS results.

Abstract: In the era of free speech and rapid internet expansion, curbing the dissemination of offensive content on social media has become a pressing concern for linguists and regulatory bodies. Hate ...

Abstract: Braille script serves as a fundamental medium of communication for individuals with visual impairments. However, its interpretation by non-experts poses a significant challenge, hindering ...

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets ...

Small and fast: only 123M parameters. High-quality voice cloning: state-of-the-art performance in speaker similarity, intelligibility, and naturalness. Multi-lingual: support Chinese and English.

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