Underdog Woof: a ~32 MB browser TTS model (CC BY-NC) with an offline demo
Underdog's Woof TTS: ~31.7 MB / ~30.7M params, WebGPU in-browser demo at underdog.ai/escape. License CC BY-NC 4.0. No confirmed Hub GA.
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6 stories tagged tts on AI Tamer, newest first.
The voice a screen reader borrows
A screen reader speaks your writing in a voice someone chose, and that choice is usually in the reader's hands. Your words stay yours; the voice that says them is borrowed.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedOpenAI will remove tts-1 and gpt-4o-mini-tts on 6 January 2027
OpenAI's deprecations page, dated 1 October 2026, removes tts-1, tts-1-hd, and two gpt-4o-mini-tts snapshots on 6 January 2027. The named replacement does not support the speech REST endpoint.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedElevenLabs Eleven v4: emotive TTS + low-latency v4 Turbo
ElevenLabs launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo (published Sep 28, 2026; page updated Oct 1)—emotive text-to-speech for agents and creative work, available now in ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative, and ElevenAPI.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedHugging Face Open TTS Leaderboard: open/multilingual eval infra
HF (2026-09-30) launched the Open TTS Leaderboard—objective WER/CER (Qwen3 ASR), RTFx, TTFA, and WavLM SIM for open-source and multilingual TTS/voice cloning. Eval infrastructure, not a model launch: ASR/WER is a proxy for intelligibility and does not measure listener preference or naturalness. Named ranks = blog snapshot; eval scripts still “soon.”
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedQwen-Audio-3.1 ships a five-model voice stack as Alibaba Cloud cuts audio API prices
Alibaba's Qwen team upgraded its ASR, TTS and Realtime voice models and added TTS-Next and ASR-Next, while a Model Studio notice cut realtime voice rates by up to about 88% from September 22.
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