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A comment on TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization.

Re:TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acous... by ilaksh on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @09:23AM (#47335254)
okay so they say text continuation only without fine tuning. I assume that means that we can't use it as a replacement for TTS in an AI agent chat? Because it will not work without enough context?

Could you maybe trick it into thinking it was continuing a sample for an assistant use case if the sample was generic enough?

I appreciate them being honest about it though because otherwise I might spend two days trying to make it work.

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Re:TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acous... by jpcl on Thursday March 12, 2026 @10:39AM (#47351202)
What this means is that it does not support things like acting instructions or creating a voice from a text description. If you prompt it with a matching text+voice sample it will be able to generate more speech based on more text, just like a TTS. It can also generate it's own text on the fly but it won't be as good as your frontier model.
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