Season 2 · Episode 1808
The 82M Parameter Voice That Beat Billion-Dollar AI
How a model the size of a tweet outperforms billion-dollar giants in the race for perfect AI speech.
My Weird Prompts · Daniel Rosehill
March 31, 202622m 45s
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Show Notes
The voice you're hearing doesn't exist. It's generated by AI, and the gap between open-source and commercial models is vanishing. We explore how tiny models like Kokoro are beating giants like ElevenLabs on benchmarks, and why the future of AI voice might run on a $35 Raspberry Pi. Discover the secrets of flow matching, semantic tokens, and the death of the awkward pause.