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5 stories tagged voice-cloning on AI Tamer, newest first.
ZONOS3-Mini is an 800M-parameter MoE text-to-speech model with about 100M active, Apache-2.0 weights, voice cloning and runtimes for browsers, Macs and SGLang.
AssemblyAI-TTS-1 is GA for voice agents: six languages, 4,000+ voices, instant cloning and about 90 ms to first audio, with no concurrency fees.
OpenAI is retiring its TTS models for realtime voice; Google doubled down on cheap TTS. GPT-Live 1, Realtime 2.1 and Gemini 3.8 TTS on twelve questions.
ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo hold the top two arena spots. Cloning, languages, latency, prices, the new Realtime v1 and what users say.
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.”
