Ok. Sounds cool. Now what? Open source weights? An API somewhere? Available on Openrouter? Are they just testing?

Where is this going?

not at all creepy

Great. I wonder.. is this based on Mochi or PersonaPlex? Also, how big is the model, and do we use it?

reminds me of the last year hype around SesameAILabs/csm, people losing their mind over how realistic it was, only for them to disappear and never ship. sorry can't get hyped over some mp3s.

But can it follow a simple customer support script?

Now that a robot can speak over people on Zoom calls for me, I’m finally free to write poems all day!

Call me a skeptic, obviously the voice sounds plausible and very realistic and human-level but where does the intelligence come from if it's only trained on human speech datasets? LLMs are powerful because they can do anything, if you only have a voice corpus I doubt it is as powerful as all written human knowledge. Like when it says "My day was good", what does it actually mean? Or is it just generating plausible slop.

Very impressive demo!