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The New Top-Ranked Text-to-Speech Model Ships Two Voices. What Ad Voiceovers Actually Need
Alibaba's new speech model took the number one spot on Artificial Analysis' Speech Arena for provider voices at an Elo of 1,238, yet its published catalog is two system voices in Mandarin and English with Spanish still missing from the shipping language table, which is exactly the distance between winning a blind listening test and being usable for a Spanish-language ad.