Did they delete the repo? It's 404 for me now: https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice
they must have removed it.. been down for hrs.
VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
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Re: VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
The application of known FOSS licenses to what is effectively a binary-only release is misleading and borderline meaningless.
It is an unfortunate recycling of an existing regime that no doubt offends Stallman to his very core, but I wouldn't call it meaningless. If you're in a company and need a model which one do you think you're getting past compliance & legal - the one that says MIT or the one that says "non-commercial use only"?
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this is a very lazy kind of cultural analysis. The reason female voices are being chosen over male ones is a little more multifaceted than just SEX. Heterosexual women also tend to prefer female voices over male ones. Female voices are often rated as being clearer, easier to understand, "warmer", etc. Why this is the case is still an open question, but it's definitely more complex than just SEX.
I don't think that this is the only factor, I just suspect that it is _a_ factor.
>There's not typically quite as much interest in doing the same for women.
Women also prefer female voices.
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#174I'm really hoping one day there will be TTS does that does really nice British accents - I've surveyed them all deeply, none do. Most that claim to do a British accent end up sounding like Kelsey Grammer - sort of an American accent pretending to be British.
I’m just a yank, but a lot of the AI-voiced videos on YouTube that I’ve been listening to while I’m falling asleep lately have British voices that sound quite nice to me.
Re: VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
#175Did they delete the repo? It's 404 for me now: https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice
they must have removed it.. been down for hrs.
Repo is back but code is gone, with this statement:
> 2025-09-05: VibeVoice is an open-source research framework intended to advance collaboration in the speech synthesis community. After release, we discovered instances where the tool was used in ways inconsistent with the stated intent. Since responsible use of AI is one of Microsoft’s guiding principles, we have disabled the repo until we are confident that out-of-scope use is no longer possible.
What was that about?
Re: VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think that this is the only factor, I just suspect that it is _a_ factor.
>There's not typically quite as much interest in doing the same for women. Women also prefer female voices.
Okay. I'd happily believe that, it doesn't contradict what I said.
The quote you have from me is from this context:
> There's a lot of money and effort spent in satisfying the sexual desires of (predominantly straight) men. There's not typically quite as much interest in doing the same for women.
In that context, your response is impossible to respond to. Do you even disagree with what I said or do you (like me) just think that there are other factors in addition?
Any particular reason you're being kind of a dick btw?
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What is your opinion about F5-TTS or Fish-TTS?
I recently implemented Fish for a project and found it adequate for TTS but wildly impressive in voice cloning. My POC originally required 3-10 audio samples but I removed the minimum because it could usually one shot it. The model is good, but I will say their inference code leaves a lot to be desired. I had to rewrite large portions of it for simple things like correct chunking and streaming. The advertised express…
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