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Tossed distorted audio samples to an open-weight voice model; it did fairly well.

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Being a person obsessed with testing new models that come out, times are really insane for me. Tested different kinds of TTS and voice cloning models but none of them gets it right in terms of emotion and pace, you know which one is fake in seconds; they just fail in emotions. Spotted Confucius4 on…

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  1. 2026-09-04 12:50 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Tossed distorted audio samples to an open-weight voice model; it did fairly well.

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