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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.
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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.

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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?
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