Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies

Mistral AI has launched Voxtral Transcribe 2, a new on-device speech-to-text model family featuring real-time transcription, ...

Mistral's New Ultra-Fast Translation Model Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money

Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup’s vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a ...
OSTechNix

Pocket TTS: High-Quality Local Voice Cloning Without GPU

Pocket TTS delivers high-quality text-to-speech on standard CPUs. No GPU, no cloud APIs. It is the first local TTS with voice ...
IEEE

Learning to Maximize Speech Quality Directly Using MOS Prediction for Neural Text-to-Speech

Abstract: Although recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems have achieved high-quality speech synthesis, there are cases where a TTS system generates low-quality speech, mainly caused by limited ...
GitHub

Fast and High-Quality Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Flow Matching

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.
IEEE

Lightweight and High-Fidelity End-to-End Text-to-Speech with Multi-Band Generation and Inverse Short-Time Fourier Transform

Abstract: We propose a lightweight end-to-end text-to-speech model using multi-band generation and inverse short-time Fourier transform. Our model is based on VITS, a high-quality end-to-end ...
GitHub

VoiceCraft: Zero-Shot Speech Editing and Text-to-Speech in the Wild

VoiceCraft is a token infilling neural codec language model, that achieves state-of-the-art performance on both speech editing and zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) on in-the-wild data including ...