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We released TontaubeV1, a character-level TTS model for long-form generation [P]

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Hey everyone, My brother and I just released TontaubeV1, a 2.9B-parameter open-weight TTS model focused on expressive speech, long-form generation/narration, and low-latency local inference. It is primarily aimed at English and German and supports zero-shot voice cloning from up to one minute of re…

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  1. 2026-09-01 12:23 · r/MachineLearning
    We released TontaubeV1, a character-level TTS model for long-form generation [P]

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