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Audiblez is a tool for generating high-quality .m4b audiobooks directly from .epub e-books using the Kokoro-82M neural text-to-speech model. It focuses on making audiobook creation easy and fast: from a single command, the tool splits an e-book into chapters, synthesizes audio for each section, and then merges the results into a structured audiobook with chapter-based WAV files and a final .m4b container. The Kokoro-82M model it uses is compact (82M parameters) yet natural sounding, trained on under 100 hours of audio, and supports multiple languages, including English (US/UK), Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese. ...

...One of its most notable capabilities is zero-shot voice cloning, allowing users to replicate a speaker’s voice using only a short reference audio clip. In addition, it supports voice design through configurable attributes such as gender, accent, pitch, and speaking style, giving users fine-grained control over generated speech. The system also includes advanced features like non-verbal expression tags and pronunciation overrides, enabling expressive and precise output. With support for both API-based and command-line usage, it is designed for research, production, and experimentation alike.

...Rather than treating audio editing as low-level waveform manipulation, this model converts speech into a sequence of discrete “audio tokens” (via a dual-codebook tokenizer) — combining a linguistic token stream and a semantic (prosody/emotion/style) token stream — thereby abstracting audio editing into high-level token operations. This allows users to modify not only what is said (the text) but also how it's said: emotion, tone, speaking style, prosody, accent, even paralinguistic cues. Because the model is trained with a “large-margin learning” objective over many synthesized and natural speech samples, it gains robust control over expressive attributes, and can perform iterative editing: e.g. you could record a line, then ask the model to “make it sadder,” “speak slower,” or “change accent to X.”

Orpheus TTS is a state-of-the-art open-source text-to-speech system built on a Llama-3B backbone, treating speech synthesis as a large language model problem instead of a traditional TTS pipeline. It is designed to produce human-like speech with natural intonation, emotion, and rhythm, targeting quality comparable to or better than many closed-source systems. The project ships both pretrained and finetuned English models, as well as a family of multilingual models released as a research...

Dia is a neural text-to-speech model designed specifically for generating ultra-realistic dialogue in a single pass. Instead of focusing on isolated sentences or flat narration, it is optimized for conversational audio, complete with natural turn-taking, prosody, and pacing. The model can be conditioned on a reference audio sample, allowing you to control emotion, tone, and other stylistic aspects of the speech. It can also produce nonverbal vocalizations like laughter, coughs, clearing the...

StyleTTS2 is a state-of-the-art text-to-speech system that aims for human-level naturalness by combining style diffusion, adversarial training, and large speech language models. It extends the original StyleTTS idea by introducing a style diffusion model that can sample rich, realistic speaking styles conditioned on reference speech, allowing highly expressive and diverse prosody. The architecture uses a two-stage training process and leverages an auxiliary speech language model to guide generation toward more natural and coherent utterances. StyleTTS2 supports both single-speaker and multi-speaker configurations, with the ability to sample or transfer styles from reference audio, making it powerful for expressive TTS and character voices. ...

VALL-E-X is an open-source implementation of Microsoft’s VALL-E X zero-shot text-to-speech model, focused on multilingual, cross-lingual voice cloning. It is capable of synthesizing speech in English, Chinese, and Japanese from text while mimicking the voice characteristics of a speaker given only a short 3–10 second prompt. The model attempts to match not just timbre, but also tone, pitch, emotion, and prosody of the reference audio, resulting in highly personalized output. ...

...In addition, we find VALL-E could preserve the speaker's emotion and acoustic environment of the acoustic prompt in synthesis.