Owensong Releases Inflect Micro v2 via Hugging Face
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| Source: Mastodon | Original article
AI model achieves complete voice synthesis with under 10M parameters. Inflect-Micro-v2 is now available on Hugging Face.
A new text-to-speech model, Inflect-Micro-v2, has been released on Hugging Face, boasting complete voice synthesis in just 9.36M parameters. This model, built and funded independently by Owen, offers fixed-voice English TTS with deterministic seeds, long-text handling, and CPU or CUDA inference.
What makes this development significant is its potential to advance local text-to-waveform speech synthesis, providing a more compact and efficient solution. As the creator notes, if this release gains traction, they plan to continue the project with a broader version 3, possibly including more languages and voices.
As we follow the evolution of AI models on Hugging Face, this release is worth watching, particularly given the recent security concerns surrounding OpenAI and Hugging Face, as reported earlier. The Inflect-Micro-v2 model demonstrates the ongoing innovation in the field, and its impact on the development of more sophisticated and accessible AI models will be interesting to observe.
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