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Miso TTS is an advanced 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model developed by Miso Labs for generating highly expressive and natural-sounding conversational speech. Built on an RVQ Transformer architecture inspired by Sesame CSM, it combines a powerful Llama-based backbone with an autoregressive audio decoder to produce high-quality audio from text. The model supports both standard speech synthesis and voice-conditioned generation using optional audio prompts for voice cloning. Miso TTS generates Mimi audio codes and can leverage conversation history to create more contextually aware and realistic dialogue. Designed for local deployment, it offers watermarking by default to help promote responsible use of generated audio. ...

...It builds on state-of-the-art models such as XTTS and other modern neural TTS backbones, improving them with a conformer-based speech conditional encoder and upgrading the decoder to a high-quality vocoder (BigVGAN2), leading to clearer and more natural audio output. The system supports zero-shot voice cloning — meaning it can mimic a target speaker’s voice from a short reference sample — making it versatile for multi-voice uses. Compared to many open-source TTS tools, IndexTTS emphasizes efficiency and controllability: it offers faster inference, simpler training pipelines, and controllable speech parameters (like duration, pitch, and prosody), which is critical for production use.

The CSM (Conversational Speech Model) is a speech generation model developed by Sesame AI that creates RVQ audio codes from text and audio inputs. It uses a Llama backbone and a smaller audio decoder to produce audio codes for realistic speech synthesis. The model has been fine-tuned for interactive voice demos and is hosted on platforms like Hugging Face for testing. CSM offers a flexible setup and is compatible with CUDA-enabled GPUs for efficient execution.