VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

Post by IshKebab » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 12:52 PM UTC

simiones wrote: post #23

I read the comments praising these voices as very life like, and went to the page primed to hear very convincing voices. That is not at all what I heard though. The voices are decent, but the intonation is off on almost every phrase, and there is a very clear robotic-sounding modulation. It's generally very impressive compared to many text-to-speech solutions from a few years ago, but for today, I find it very uninsp…

Post by esafak » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 12:59 PM UTC

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #29

giancarlostoro wrote: post #27

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Well don't forget "Microsoft SQL" ;) They'll name something as though they invented it and now have the worse possible way to google it.

“Microsoft Word” haha reminds me of the old joke : “Microsoft Works” is an oxymoron.

Post by datadrivenangel » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 1:09 PM UTC

polytely wrote: post #36

simiones wrote: post #25

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Knowing the history of Microsoft marketing, it will either be called something like "Microsoft Copilot Code Generator for VSCode" or something like "Zunega"...

GitHub Dotnet Copilot Code Generator for VSC (new)

Post by faxmeyourcode » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 1:21 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 1:32 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #34

I tried some TTS models a while ago, but I noticed that none of them allowed to put markup statements in the text. For example, it would be nice to do something like: Hey look! [enthusiastic] Should we tell the others? Maybe not ... [giggles] etc. In fact, I think this kind of thing is absolutely necessary if you want to use this to replace a voice actor.