Edge0 releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight voice cloning TTS model
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Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight zero-shot text-to-speech model with 601M main-model parameters.
It clones a voice from one reference clip and transcript, supports 23 languages, and ships its weights and code under Apache 2.0, according to MarkTechPost.
The source reports 4.86% average CV3 error across nine languages, compared with 7.73% for Qwen3-TTS-1.7B. It also reports weak performance on lower-resource languages, including 48.57% WER on Thai.
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AIEdge0 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.
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