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Alibaba’s CosyVoice 3: The ‘Production-Ready’ TTS That Still Needs a User Manual

CosyVoice 3 promises multilingual voice cloning and 150ms latency, but real-world deployment reveals a gap between benchmark scores and actual reliability. Here’s what the benchmarks won’t tell you.

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generative-ai

GLM-TTS: The 3-Second Voice Cloner That Outperforms Commercial Systems (But Has a Contraction Problem)

Z.ai’s GLM-TTS combines zero-shot voice cloning, multi-reward RL emotion control, and bilingual streaming synthesis. The open-source model beats closed alternatives on accuracy, but real-world testing reveals sharp edges.

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AI-ethics

Echo TTS: The Voice Cloning Breakthrough Too Dangerous to Release

A new diffusion TTS model achieves high-fidelity voice cloning on consumer hardware, but its creator dimmed the revolutionary potential by withholding the most powerful component, and Reddit is furious.

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