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VibeVoice-1.5B is Microsoft’s frontier open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio such as podcasts. Unlike traditional TTS systems, it excels in scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking for up to 90 minutes of continuous speech with as many as four distinct speakers. A key innovation is its use of continuous acoustic and semantic speech tokenizers operating at an ultra-low frame rate of 7.5 Hz, enabling high audio fidelity with efficient processing of long sequences. ...