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Re:Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that... by VerifiedReports on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:40AM (#46550436)
What is "zero-shot" supposed to mean?
Re:Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that... by onion2k on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:31AM (#46551363)
zero-shot is a single prompt (maybe with additional context in the form of files.)

few-shot is providing a few examples to steer the LLM

multi-shot is a longer cycle of prompts and refinement

Re:Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that... by moffkalast on Friday January 09, 2026 @05:36AM (#46552320)
if you had one-shot

or one opportunity

Re:Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that... by nake89 on Friday January 09, 2026 @05:41AM (#46552360)
to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Re:Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that... by raccer on Friday January 09, 2026 @11:13AM (#46555376)
Would you capture it or just let it slip? Yo
Re:Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that... by mikkupikku on Friday January 09, 2026 @08:39AM (#46553703)
I've been calling good results from a single prompt "single-shot." Is this not right?
Re:Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that... by flimflamm on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:00PM (#46555968)
No as you could have multiple examples of expected output in single prompt. You should just "ask" - that's zero shot. If you "ask + provide" examples then you are in the n+1 shot realm. But I suppose terminology is shifting from this...
Re:Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that... by samtheprogram on Friday January 09, 2026 @09:24AM (#46554149)
This is one-shot.
Re:Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that... by carteazy on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:01AM (#46550554)
I believe in this case it means that you do not need to provide other voice samples to get a good clone.
Re:Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that... by spwa4 on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:15AM (#46550936)
It means there is zero training involved in getting from voice sample to voice duplicate. There used to be models that take a voice sample, run 5 or 10 training iterations (which of course takes 10 mins, or a few hours if you have hardware as shitty as mine), and only then duplicate the voice.

This you give the voice sample as part of the input, and immediately it tries to duplicate the voice.

Re:Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that... by x3haloed on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:26AM (#46551334)
Doesn’t NeuTTS work the same way?