[r/LocalLLaMA] Fish Audio Releases S2: open-source, controllable and expressive TTS model

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Fish Audio has open-sourced S2, a highly controllable and expressive Text-to-Speech (TTS) model that allows precise voice direction using natural language emotion tags. It supports multi-speaker dialogue, 80+ languages, and boasts a rapid 100ms time-to-first-audio. Remarkably, S2 claims to outperform leading closed-source models from Google and OpenAI in the Audio Turing Test and EmergentTTS-Eval.

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