Microsoft’s new VibeVoice marks a striking shift in what open-source text-to-speech can do: from short, single-voice clips to hour‑scale, multi‑speaker spoken audio that resembles a produced podcast — and it’s available now for researchers and tinkerers to try. The framework packages a compact...
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Microsoft Research has released VibeVoice, an open-source text‑to‑speech (TTS) framework built for long-form, multi‑speaker conversational audio and designed to push the boundaries of scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn‑taking in synthetic dialogue. (github.com, huggingface.co)...
Microsoft’s VibeVoice-1.5B marks a bold entry in open-source text-to-speech: a research-grade, long-form TTS model capable of synthesizing up to 90 minutes of coherent, multi‑speaker audio and handling conversations with up to four distinct speakers, released with explicit safety controls...