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jamiltontoday at 1:19 AM1 replyview on HN

Being able to voice clone with PocketTTS seems major, it doesn't look like there's any support for that with Kokoro.


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echelontoday at 1:54 AM

Zero shot voice clones have never been very good. Fine tuned models hit natural speaker similarity and prosody in a way zero shot models can't emulate.

If it were a big model and was trained on a diverse set of speakers and could remember how to replicate them all, then zero shot is a potentially bigger deal. But this is a tiny model.

I'll try out the zero shot functionality of Pocket TTS and report back.