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10/24/261 day ago x.com
Dessa: full-duplex speech-to-speech model announced for consumer GPUs
A post announces Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that, according to its author, was trained only on speech and runs on consumer GPUs. Relevant to locally hosted conversational voice.
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10/24/261 day ago x.com
Open TTS Leaderboard adds 31M and 35B models and the UTMOS metric
The Open TTS Leaderboard update compares a 31M-parameter open model with a 35B one on English WER and adds the UTMOS metric for speech naturalness.
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10/21/264 days ago x.com
Ant Ling releases five Ming-3.0 speech models with open weights
Ant Ling announced the open-source release of five Ming-3.0 models covering speech synthesis variants, audio understanding, dialogue and automatic speech recognition for dialects.
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10/21/264 days ago x.com
Streaming ASR: decoding speech without seeing future audio
The Tongyi Speech AI post explains streaming speech recognition, where words must be committed while the speaker is still talking. Latency and lookahead shape the model and decoder design for live voice applications.
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10/21/264 days ago x.com
Kyutai releases smaller Pocket TTS versions with up to 1.9M parameters
Kyutai Labs has announced smaller Pocket TTS versions at 18.2M, 6.9M and 1.9M parameters, and claims the 1.9M model runs 103x faster than real time on a single CPU core, with voice cloning.
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10/21/264 days ago x.com
Open source TTS models smaller than Kokoro, with voice cloning
The post announces open source text-to-speech models about half the size of Kokoro (82M parameters), with claimed gains in naturalness and accuracy and support for voice cloning. They could lower the cost of running speech synthesis locally.
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10/21/264 days ago x.com
Phonon: 40M-parameter multilingual TTS model for locally run voice
According to the author's announcement, Phonon is a text-to-speech model of about 40M parameters, with multiple languages, a voice library, and local use through the speech-to-speech package.
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10/21/264 days ago x.com
Phonon: open 31M-parameter TTS running in the browser via WebGPU
Post reports a port of Phonon, an open 31M-parameter text-to-speech model from GradiumAI, running fully in the browser via WebGPU in half precision, with the author citing about 47x real time on an M4 Pro and 7x on a Phone 13 Pro.
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10/19/266 days ago x.com
AuroraASR-1M: offline speech recognition on CPU with a 1 MB model
The post describes a 949K-parameter Conformer-CTC model for English, 1.06 MB in INT8, Apache 2.0 licensed, running at about 436x real time on one CPU thread with an 11.43% WER on test-clean.
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10/10/2615 days ago x.com
Artificial Analysis: HeyGen Voice tops controlled voice TTS ranking
Artificial Analysis ranked HeyGen Voice first in the Controlled Voice TTS Arena, with an Elo of 1,201 across 8 cloned voices in US and UK English, ahead of competing commercial voice models.
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10/09/2616 days ago x.com
Voice clones of non-native English speakers rated more human: what it means for companies
A NeurIPS 2026 paper cloned the voices of 86 non-native English speakers using three voice-synthesis systems. In 4,000 human ratings, the clones were judged warmer, more authoritative and more human, which raises trust risks for voice channels.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Single-voice 9MB TTS model distilled from Kokoro-82M for local voice output
A post describes a single-voice, single-language text-to-speech model of about 9MB of weights, distilled from Kokoro-82M and aimed at local voice output on resource-constrained devices.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Private evaluation data to reduce ASR test leakage
On May 6, 2026, the Open ASR Leaderboard added private evaluation data from Appen and DataoceanAI to reduce test-set contamination and overfitting.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
How to evaluate voice models for products and operations
On November 6, 2025, Artificial Analysis reported that Inworld TTS 1 Max led Speech Arena, a blind comparison of text-to-speech models based on human evaluations.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Microsoft describes long-audio transcription with speaker diarization
An article published on March 2, 2026 describes a model that Microsoft says transcribes up to 60 minutes of audio in one pass and supports more than 50 languages.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Pocket TTS: speech synthesis on laptops without a GPU
In a post published on January 13, 2026, Kyutai Labs introduced Pocket TTS, a 100-million-parameter speech synthesis model with voice cloning that runs on a laptop without a GPU.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Evaluating speech recognition for distant audio
On June 10, 2026, Cohere said its open speech-recognition model ranked first on the Far-Field ASR benchmark. The result may inform evaluations of systems for distant audio.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
VoxCPM: expressive speech without a tokenizer
Published on January 31, 2026, the post describes a speech synthesis system using continuous representations, zero-shot voice cloning, and expressive generation.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Voice app adds support for custom models in five languages
A post dated November 11, 2024, says the e2-f5-tts Gradio app now supports custom F5-TTS finetunes for Spanish, Hungarian, German, Portuguese, and Greek.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Moonshine ASR joins the Transformers library
A post published on January 20, 2025 announces Moonshine’s integration into Transformers: the model uses Rotary Position Embeddings and accepts audio of any duration.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Audio reasoning benchmark reports 92%
An Artificial Analysis report records a 92% score on Big Bench Audio for an audio model and compares time to first token with and without reasoning.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Evaluating real-time speech inference
Published on September 18, 2024, the article presents Moshi, a 7.6-billion-parameter speech-to-speech model, and Mimi, a streaming audio codec.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
E2-F5-TTS adds an interface for voice-model tuning
On October 21, 2024, the E2-F5-TTS repository presented a Gradio app for tuning the model with user-supplied audio and automatically transcribing clips.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
FireRedChat: full-duplex voice for assistants
A post dated October 7, 2025 describes a modular voice interaction system with cascade and semi-cascade modes, interruption handling, end-of-speech detection, and real-time responses.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Mini-Omni-Reasoner combines reasoning and speech
A September 22, 2025 post describes an architecture that alternates silent reasoning with spoken tokens, alongside a new dataset and reported gains in arithmetic reasoning and contextual understanding.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Parler-TTS: evaluating controllable voice models
Published on August 8, 2024, the announcement presents Mini and Large v1, models trained on 45,000 hours of speech, with voice controls set through text prompts.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Piper offers local multilingual neural speech synthesis
Published on January 7, 2025, the text describes Piper, a local system that converts text to speech with multiple voices, languages, and customizable options.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Streaming TTS points to multi-voice dialogue
A September 15, 2025 post describes a long-form streaming speech system that interleaves text and audio for contextual dialogue with multiple speakers.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
Local TTS with voice cloning: risks and implementation
On February 15, 2025, Zonos announced an expressive speech synthesis beta with voice cloning, open models, and a cross-platform local launcher.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
VoiceCraft: speech editing and zero-shot synthesis
Published on August 25, 2024, the text describes VoiceCraft, a model that edits speech and generates voices from a few seconds of reference audio.
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10/08/2617 days ago x.com
XEUS: multilingual speech encoder with code and checkpoints
On July 1, 2024, WavLab announced XEUS, a speech encoder trained on more than 1 million hours of audio and covering over 4,000 languages. Code, checkpoints, and data were made available.
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10/07/2618 days ago x.com
Breeze TTS 2: Multilingual voice generation in streaming
A publication dated August 25, 2026 describes a speech synthesis model supporting 50 languages, text-prompt voice generation, and streaming output.
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10/07/2618 days ago x.com
Speaker diarization: evaluating label correction
A Google article published on October 4, 2026 describes a 4-billion-parameter model fine-tuned to correct speaker labels and reduce word-level diarization errors across four benchmarks.
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10/07/2618 days ago x.com
Index compares speech models across three capabilities
Published on June 23, 2026, the Artificial Analysis index combines three evaluation datasets to compare native Speech-to-Speech models.
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10/07/2618 days ago x.com
Local audio cleanup on Raspberry Pi 5: how to assess the use case
A post dated June 22, 2026 presents a 49,000-parameter model for acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, and dereverberation, with claimed performance of 21× real time on one Raspberry Pi 5 core.
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10/07/2618 days ago x.com
NVIDIA presents diarization for overlapping speech
Announcement dated September 23, 2026: Nemotron 3 Diarization identifies who spoke and when, including in overlapping speech, and supports up to eight speakers.
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10/07/2618 days ago x.com
Packed FlashAttention speeds up a Transformer vocoder
A July 20, 2026 publication reports a 48.64% increase in QPS for a Transformer vocoder after waveform reconstruction optimizations.
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10/07/2618 days ago x.com
Phonon-1: evaluating local audio transcription
A post dated August 28, 2026 presents Phonon-1, a speech recognition model with 782 million parameters, a 415 MB download, and an Apache 2.0 license.
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10/07/2618 days ago x.com
Speech transcription: how to evaluate a new model
In an article published on September 3, 2026, Microsoft presents MAI-Transcribe-2, supporting 60 languages, speaker diarization, and word-level timestamps.
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10/07/2618 days ago x.com
Streaming transcription and diarization in one model
A September 3, 2026 post describes a streaming model that combines speech transcription and diarization—identifying who is speaking—in a single model.

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