speech-synthesis

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• Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters

  2026-07-26

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  11 min read

  Inflect-Micro-v2 is a text-to-speech synthesis model with under 10 million parameters, offering fixed-voice English TTS, deterministic seeds, long-text handling, and support for CPU or CUDA inference. The developer aims to expand the project to include additional languages, voices, and stability improvements if it gains traction.

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• The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users

  2026-01-23

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  Modern AI text-to-speech systems for screen reader users have not significantly evolved in the past 30 years. The requirements for blind users differ greatly from those of sighted users, leading to a lack of advancements in the voices available for screen readers.

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