# Edge0 releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B open-weight voice cloning model

> Original title: Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model

- Source: MarkTechPost
- Published: 2026-10-30T05:02:52.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/iaja88xgsmettqzr5dy7jdor7
- Original: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/29/edge0-audio8-tts-realistic-0-6b-voice-cloning/

## Summary

Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight zero-shot text-to-speech model with 601M main-model parameters that clones a voice from one reference clip and transcript. The model supports 23 languages under Apache 2.0, and the source reports 4.86% average CV3 error across 9 languages, versus 7.73% for Qwen3-TTS-1.7B. Performance on lower-resource languages remains weak, with 48.57% WER on Thai.