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On October 30, 2026, Edge0 released the open-source-weight voice cloning TTS model Audio8-TTS-Realistic. According to a MarkTechPost report, the model has 601M parameters, supports 23 languages, and its weights and code are released under Apache 2.0. The model requires only one reference audio clip and its corresponding text to perform zero-shot voice cloning, and can also generate speech directly when no reference voice is available. Self-reported results show that its average error rate on the CV3 nine-language benchmark is 4.86%, lower than Qwen3-TTS-1.7B's 7.73%; however, on the MiniMax benchmark it lags behind 4B-class models, with Thai WER reaching 48.57%. There are currently no further developments.
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Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic: A 0.6B Open-Source Voice Cloning TTS Model
Edge0 has released the open-weight voice cloning TTS model Audio8-TTS-Realistic, with 601M parameters, supporting 23 languages, with weights and code released under Apache 2.0. The model requires only 1 reference audio clip and its corresponding text for zero-shot voice cloning, and can also directly generate speech when no reference voice is available. Self-reported results show an average error rate of 4.86% on the CV3 nine-language benchmark, lower than Qwen3-TTS-1.7B's 7.73%, but it lags behind 4B-class models on the MiniMax benchmark, with Thai WER reaching 48.57%.