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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by aargh_aargh on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:34AM (#45114957)
Is there a current, updated list (ideally, a ranking) of the best open weights TTS models?

I'm actually more interested in STT (ASR) but the choices there are rather limited.

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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by Uehreka on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:50AM (#45116488)
Yes: https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-to-speech

Generally if a model is trending on that page, there’s enough juice for it to be worth a try. There’s a lot of subjective-opinion-having in this space, so beyond “is it trending on HF” the best eval is your own ears. But if something is not trending on HF it is unlikely to be much good.

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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by odie5533 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:36AM (#45116346)
Best TTS: VibeVoice, Chatterbox, Dia, Higgs, F5 TTS, Kokoro, Cosy Voice, XTTS-2.
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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by kroaton on Thursday September 04, 2025 @03:12AM (#45124463)
Unmute.sh (same team as Kokoro) gets slept on, but it's really good.
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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by xnx on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @09:19AM (#45115421)
Click leaderboard in the hamburger menu: https://huggingface.co/spaces/TTS-AGI/TTS-Arena-V2
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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by prophesi on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:15AM (#45116081)
Is there a way to filter out hosted models? The top three winners currently are all proprietary as far as I can tell.

edit: Ah, there's a lock icon next to the name of each proprietary model.

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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by odie5533 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:32AM (#45116291)
That's a highly incomplete comparison
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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by watsonmusic on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:53AM (#45116531)
yes the best
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