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KugelAudio-0-Open: TTS for European languages
Browse filesRemove voice cloning, use pre-encoded voices instead.
Voices are stored as .pt files in voices/ folder.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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---
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language:
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- en
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- de
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- fr
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- es
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- it
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- pt
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- nl
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- pl
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- ru
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- uk
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- cs
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- ro
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- hu
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- sv
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- da
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- fi
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- no
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- el
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- bg
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- sk
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- hr
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- sr
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- tr
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license: mit
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tags:
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- text-to-speech
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- tts
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- speech-synthesis
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- audio-generation
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- european-languages
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- diffusion
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- autoregressive
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pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
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inference: false
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model-index:
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- name: kugelaudio-0-open
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results:
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- task:
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type: text-to-speech
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dataset:
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type: custom
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name: YODAS2
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metrics:
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- type: win-rate
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value: 78.0
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name: Human Preference vs ElevenLabs
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---
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# 🎙️ KugelAudio-0-Open
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**Open-source text-to-speech for European languages**
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7B parameter model powered by an AR + Diffusion architecture
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<p align="center">
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<a href="https://github.com/Kugelaudio/kugelaudio-open"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-Source_Code-black" alt="GitHub Source Code"></a>
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<a href="https://kugelaudio.com"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/🌐-Website-blue" alt="KugelAudio Website"></a>
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</p>
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<table align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;">
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<a href="https://kugelaudio.com">
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<img src="https://www.kugelaudio.com/logos/Logo%20Short.svg" alt="KugelAudio" style="height: 60px; width: auto;">
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</a>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0 20px;">
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<a href="https://hpi.de/ki-servicezentrum/">
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<img src="https://docs.sc.hpi.de/attachments/aisc/aisc-logo.png" alt="KI-Servicezentrum Berlin-Brandenburg" style="height: 60px; width: auto;">
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0 20px;">
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<a href="https://www.bmftr.bund.de">
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<img src="https://hpi.de/fileadmin/_processed_/a/3/csm_BMFTR_de_Web_RGB_gef_durch_cd1f5345bd.jpg" alt="Gefördert durch BMFTR" style="height: 60px; width: auto;">
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</table>
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License: MIT Python 3.10+ Hosted API
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KugelAudio KI-Servicezentrum Berlin-Brandenburg Gefördert durch BMFTR
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---
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## Motivation
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**Open-source text-to-speech models for European languages are significantly lagging behind.** While English TTS has seen remarkable progress, speakers of German, French, Spanish, Polish, and dozens of other European languages have been underserved by the open-source community.
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KugelAudio aims to change this. Building on the excellent foundation laid by the [VibeVoice team at Microsoft](https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice), we've trained a model specifically focused on European language coverage, using approximately **200,000 hours** of highly pre-processed and enhanced speech data from the [YODAS2 dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/espnet/yodas).
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## 🏆 Benchmark Results: Outperforming ElevenLabs
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**KugelAudio achieves state-of-the-art performance**, beating industry leaders including ElevenLabs in rigorous human preference testing. This breakthrough demonstrates that open-source models can now rival - and surpass - the best commercial TTS systems.
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### Human Preference Benchmark (A/B Testing)
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We conducted extensive A/B testing with **339 human evaluations** to compare KugelAudio against leading TTS models. Participants listened to a reference voice sample, then compared outputs from two models and selected which sounded more human and closer to the original voice.
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### German Language Evaluation
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The evaluation specifically focused on **German language samples** with diverse emotional expressions and speaking styles:
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* **Neutral Speech**: Standard conversational tones
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These diverse test cases demonstrate the model's capability to handle a wide range of speaking styles beyond standard narration.
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### OpenSkill Ranking Results
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| Rank | Model | Score | Record | Win Rate |
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|------|-------|-------|--------|----------|
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| 🥇 1 | **KugelAudio** | **26** | 71W / 20L / 23T | **78.0%** |
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| 🥈 2 | ElevenLabs Multi v2 | 25 | 56W / 34L / 22T | 62.2% |
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| 🥉 3 | ElevenLabs v3 | 21 | 64W / 34L / 16T | 65.3% |
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| 4 | Cartesia | 21 | 55W / 38L / 19T | 59.1% |
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| 5 | VibeVoice | 10 | 30W / 74L / 8T | 28.8% |
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| 6 | CosyVoice v3 | 9 | 15W / 91L / 8T | 14.2% |
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_Based on 339 evaluations using Bayesian skill-rating system (OpenSkill)_
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## Audio Samples
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Listen to KugelAudio's diverse voice capabilities across different speaking styles and languages:
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### German Voice Samples
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| Sample | Description | Audio Player |
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|--------|-------------|--------------|
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| **Whispering** | Soft whispering voice | <audio controls><source src="https://huggingface.co/kugelaudio/kugelaudio-0-open/resolve/main/samples/258_Lukas_der_Flüsterer.wav" type="audio/wav"></audio> |
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| **Female Narrator** | Professional female reader voice | <audio controls><source src="https://huggingface.co/kugelaudio/kugelaudio-0-open/resolve/main/samples/266_Petra_die_Vorleserin.wav" type="audio/wav"></audio> |
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| **Angry Voice** | Irritated and frustrated speech | <audio controls><source src="https://huggingface.co/kugelaudio/kugelaudio-0-open/resolve/main/samples/261_Sauerer_Felix.wav" type="audio/wav"></audio> |
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| **Radio Announcer** | Professional radio broadcast voice | <audio controls><source src="https://huggingface.co/kugelaudio/kugelaudio-0-open/resolve/main/samples/277_Radio_Lars.wav" type="audio/wav"></audio> |
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*All samples are generated using pre-encoded voice embeddings.*
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+
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### Training Details
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+
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- **Base Model**: [Microsoft VibeVoice](https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice)
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- **Training Data**: ~200,000 hours from [YODAS2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/espnet/yodas)
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- **Hardware**: 8x NVIDIA H100 GPUs
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- **Training Duration**: 5 days
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+
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### Supported Languages
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This model supports the following European languages:
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| Language | Code | Flag | Language | Code | Flag | Language | Code | Flag |
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|----------|------|------|----------|------|------|----------|------|------|
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| English | en | 🇺🇸 | German | de | 🇩🇪 | French | fr | 🇫🇷 |
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| Spanish | es | 🇪🇸 | Italian | it | 🇮🇹 | Portuguese | pt | 🇵🇹 |
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| Dutch | nl | 🇳🇱 | Polish | pl | 🇵🇱 | Russian | ru | 🇷🇺 |
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| Ukrainian | uk | 🇺🇦 | Czech | cs | 🇨🇿 | Romanian | ro | 🇷🇴 |
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| Hungarian | hu | 🇭🇺 | Swedish | sv | 🇸🇪 | Danish | da | 🇩🇰 |
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| Finnish | fi | 🇫🇮 | Norwegian | no | 🇳🇴 | Greek | el | 🇬🇷 |
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+
| Bulgarian | bg | 🇧🇬 | Slovak | sk | 🇸🇰 | Croatian | hr | 🇭🇷 |
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| Serbian | sr | 🇷🇸 | Turkish | tr | 🇹🇷 | | | |
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+
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> **📊 Language Coverage Disclaimer**: Quality varies significantly by language. Spanish, French, English, and German have the strongest representation in our training data (~200,000 hours from YODAS2). Other languages may have reduced quality, prosody, or vocabulary coverage depending on their availability in the training dataset.
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+
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+
### Model Specifications
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+
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+
| Property | Value |
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| 167 |
+
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 168 |
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| **Parameters** | 7B |
|
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| **Architecture** | AR + Diffusion (Qwen2.5-7B backbone) |
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| **Base Model** | [Microsoft VibeVoice](https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice) |
|
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+
| **Audio Sample Rate** | 24kHz |
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+
| **Audio Format** | Mono, float32 |
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+
| **VRAM Required** | \~19GB |
|
| 174 |
+
| **Training Hardware** | 8x NVIDIA H100 |
|
| 175 |
+
| **Training Duration** | 5 days |
|
| 176 |
+
| **Training Data** | \~200,000 hours from [YODAS2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/espnet/yodas) |
|
| 177 |
+
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| 178 |
+
## Quick Start
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+
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| 180 |
+
### Installation
|
| 181 |
+
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+
```bash
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| 183 |
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# Install with pip
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| 184 |
+
pip install kugelaudio-open
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+
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# Or with uv (recommended)
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| 187 |
+
uv pip install kugelaudio-open
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| 188 |
+
```
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| 189 |
+
|
| 190 |
+
### Basic Usage
|
| 191 |
+
|
| 192 |
+
```python
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| 193 |
+
from kugelaudio_open import (
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| 194 |
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KugelAudioForConditionalGenerationInference,
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+
KugelAudioProcessor,
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+
)
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+
import torch
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+
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+
# Load model
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device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
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| 201 |
+
model = KugelAudioForConditionalGenerationInference.from_pretrained(
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| 202 |
+
"kugelaudio/kugelaudio-0-open",
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| 203 |
+
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
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+
).to(device)
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| 205 |
+
model.eval()
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+
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| 207 |
+
processor = KugelAudioProcessor.from_pretrained("kugelaudio/kugelaudio-0-open")
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+
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+
# Strip encoder weights to save VRAM (only decoders needed for inference)
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+
model.model.strip_encoders()
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+
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+
# See available voices
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| 213 |
+
print(processor.get_available_voices()) # ["default", "warm", "clear"]
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| 214 |
+
|
| 215 |
+
# Generate speech with a specific voice
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| 216 |
+
inputs = processor(text="Hallo Welt! Das ist KugelAudio.", voice="default", return_tensors="pt")
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| 217 |
+
inputs = {k: v.to(device) if isinstance(v, torch.Tensor) else v for k, v in inputs.items()}
|
| 218 |
+
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| 219 |
+
with torch.no_grad():
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+
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, cfg_scale=3.0)
|
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+
|
| 222 |
+
# Save audio
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| 223 |
+
processor.save_audio(outputs.speech_outputs[0], "output.wav")
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| 224 |
+
```
|
| 225 |
+
|
| 226 |
+
### Voices
|
| 227 |
+
|
| 228 |
+
KugelAudio provides pre-encoded voices that can be selected by name. The voices are stored as `.pt` files in the `voices/` folder and are automatically downloaded when needed.
|
| 229 |
+
|
| 230 |
+
```python
|
| 231 |
+
# List available voices
|
| 232 |
+
voices = processor.get_available_voices()
|
| 233 |
+
print(voices) # ["default", "warm", "clear"]
|
| 234 |
+
|
| 235 |
+
# Generate with a specific voice
|
| 236 |
+
inputs = processor(text="Hallo, das ist eine warme Stimme!", voice="warm", return_tensors="pt")
|
| 237 |
+
inputs = {k: v.to(device) if isinstance(v, torch.Tensor) else v for k, v in inputs.items()}
|
| 238 |
+
|
| 239 |
+
with torch.no_grad():
|
| 240 |
+
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, cfg_scale=3.0)
|
| 241 |
+
|
| 242 |
+
processor.save_audio(outputs.speech_outputs[0], "warm_voice_output.wav")
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| 243 |
+
```
|
| 244 |
+
|
| 245 |
+
> **Note:** Voice cloning from raw audio is not supported in this open-source release. Only the pre-encoded voices listed in `voices/voices.json` are available.
|
| 246 |
+
|
| 247 |
+
### Generation Parameters
|
| 248 |
+
|
| 249 |
+
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|
| 250 |
+
| ---------------- | ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|
| 251 |
+
| cfg\_scale | 3.0 | Classifier-free guidance scale (1.0-10.0). Higher = more adherence to text |
|
| 252 |
+
| max\_new\_tokens | 2048 | Maximum number of tokens to generate |
|
| 253 |
+
| do\_sample | False | Whether to use sampling (vs greedy decoding) |
|
| 254 |
+
| temperature | 1.0 | Sampling temperature (if do_sample=True) |
|
| 255 |
+
|
| 256 |
+
## Architecture
|
| 257 |
+
|
| 258 |
+
KugelAudio uses a hybrid **Autoregressive + Diffusion** architecture based on Microsoft's VibeVoice:
|
| 259 |
+
|
| 260 |
+
```
|
| 261 |
+
Text Input → Qwen2.5-7B Backbone → Diffusion Head → Acoustic Decoder → Audio Output
|
| 262 |
+
↑
|
| 263 |
+
Pre-encoded Voice Embedding
|
| 264 |
+
```
|
| 265 |
+
|
| 266 |
+
1. **Text Encoder**: Qwen2.5-7B language model encodes input text
|
| 267 |
+
2. **Diffusion Head**: Predicts speech latents using denoising diffusion (20 steps)
|
| 268 |
+
3. **Acoustic Decoder**: Hierarchical convolutional decoder converts latents to 24kHz audio
|
| 269 |
+
|
| 270 |
+
## Audio Watermarking
|
| 271 |
+
|
| 272 |
+
All audio generated by this model is automatically watermarked using Facebook's AudioSeal. The watermark is:
|
| 273 |
+
|
| 274 |
+
* **Imperceptible**: No audible difference in audio quality
|
| 275 |
+
* **Robust**: Survives compression, resampling, and editing
|
| 276 |
+
* **Detectable**: Can verify if audio was generated by KugelAudio
|
| 277 |
+
|
| 278 |
+
### Verify Watermark
|
| 279 |
+
|
| 280 |
+
```python
|
| 281 |
+
from kugelaudio_open.watermark import AudioWatermark
|
| 282 |
+
|
| 283 |
+
watermark = AudioWatermark()
|
| 284 |
+
result = watermark.detect(audio, sample_rate=24000)
|
| 285 |
+
|
| 286 |
+
print(f"Watermark detected: {result.detected}")
|
| 287 |
+
print(f"Confidence: {result.confidence:.1%}")
|
| 288 |
+
```
|
| 289 |
+
|
| 290 |
+
## Intended Use
|
| 291 |
+
|
| 292 |
+
### ✅ Appropriate Uses
|
| 293 |
+
|
| 294 |
+
* **Accessibility**: Text-to-speech for visually impaired users
|
| 295 |
+
* **Content Creation**: Podcasts, videos, audiobooks, e-learning
|
| 296 |
+
* **Voice Assistants**: Chatbots and virtual assistants
|
| 297 |
+
* **Language Learning**: Pronunciation practice and language education
|
| 298 |
+
* **Creative Projects**: With proper consent and attribution
|
| 299 |
+
|
| 300 |
+
### ❌ Prohibited Uses
|
| 301 |
+
|
| 302 |
+
* Creating deepfakes or misleading content
|
| 303 |
+
* Impersonating individuals without explicit consent
|
| 304 |
+
* Fraud, deception, or scams
|
| 305 |
+
* Harassment or abuse
|
| 306 |
+
* Any illegal activities
|
| 307 |
+
|
| 308 |
+
## Limitations
|
| 309 |
+
|
| 310 |
+
* **VRAM Requirements**: Requires \~19GB VRAM for inference (less with `strip_encoders()`)
|
| 311 |
+
* **Speed**: Approximately 1.0x real-time on modern GPUs
|
| 312 |
+
* **Language Quality Variation**: Quality may vary across languages based on training data distribution
|
| 313 |
+
|
| 314 |
+
## Hosted API
|
| 315 |
+
|
| 316 |
+
For production use without managing infrastructure, use our hosted API at kugelaudio.com:
|
| 317 |
+
|
| 318 |
+
* ⚡ **Ultra-low latency**: <100ms end-to-end
|
| 319 |
+
* 🌍 **Global edge deployment**
|
| 320 |
+
* 🔧 **Zero setup required**
|
| 321 |
+
* 📈 **Auto-scaling**
|
| 322 |
+
|
| 323 |
+
```python
|
| 324 |
+
from kugelaudio import KugelAudio
|
| 325 |
+
|
| 326 |
+
client = KugelAudio(api_key="your_api_key")
|
| 327 |
+
audio = client.tts.generate(text="Hello from KugelAudio!", model="kugel-1-turbo")
|
| 328 |
+
audio.save("output.wav")
|
| 329 |
+
```
|
| 330 |
+
|
| 331 |
+
## Acknowledgments
|
| 332 |
+
|
| 333 |
+
This model would not have been possible without the contributions of many individuals and organizations:
|
| 334 |
+
|
| 335 |
+
* **Microsoft VibeVoice Team**: For the excellent foundation architecture that this model builds upon
|
| 336 |
+
* **YODAS2 Dataset**: For providing the large-scale multilingual speech data
|
| 337 |
+
* **Qwen Team**: For the powerful language model backbone
|
| 338 |
+
* **Facebook AudioSeal**: For the audio watermarking technology
|
| 339 |
+
|
| 340 |
+
### Special Thanks
|
| 341 |
+
|
| 342 |
+
* **Carlos Menke**: For his invaluable efforts in gathering the first datasets and extensive work benchmarking the model
|
| 343 |
+
* **AI Service Center Berlin-Brandenburg (KI-Servicezentrum)**: For providing the GPU resources (8x H100) that made training this model possible
|
| 344 |
+
|
| 345 |
+
## Citation
|
| 346 |
+
|
| 347 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 348 |
+
@software{kugelaudio2026,
|
| 349 |
+
title = {KugelAudio: Open-Source Text-to-Speech for European Languages},
|
| 350 |
+
author = {Kratzenstein, Kajo and Menke, Carlos},
|
| 351 |
+
year = {2026},
|
| 352 |
+
institution = {Hasso-Plattner-Institut},
|
| 353 |
+
url = {https://huggingface.co/kugelaudio/kugelaudio-0-open}
|
| 354 |
+
}
|
| 355 |
+
```
|
| 356 |
+
|
| 357 |
+
## License
|
| 358 |
+
|
| 359 |
+
This model is released under the MIT License.
|
| 360 |
+
|
| 361 |
+
## Author
|
| 362 |
+
|
| 363 |
+
**Kajo Kratzenstein**
|
| 364 |
+
📧 [kajo@kugelaudio.com](mailto:kajo@kugelaudio.com)
|
| 365 |
+
🌐 [kugelaudio.com](https://kugelaudio.com)
|
| 366 |
+
|
| 367 |
+
**Carlos Menke**
|
| 368 |
+
|
| 369 |
+
---
|
| 370 |
+
|
| 371 |
+
**Funding Notice**
|
| 372 |
+
|
| 373 |
+
Das zugrunde liegende Vorhaben wurde mit Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt unter dem Förderkennzeichen »KI-Servicezentrum Berlin-Brandenburg« 16IS22092 gefördert.
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| 374 |
+
|
| 375 |
+
_This project was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space under the funding code "AI Service Center Berlin-Brandenburg" 16IS22092._
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{
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"acostic_vae_dim": 64,
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"acoustic_tokenizer_config": {
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"causal": true,
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"channels": 1,
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"conv_bias": true,
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"conv_norm": "none",
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"corpus_normalize": 0.0,
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"decoder_depths": null,
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"decoder_n_filters": 32,
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"decoder_ratios": [
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],
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"disable_last_norm": true,
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"encoder_depths": "3-3-3-3-3-3-8",
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+
"encoder_n_filters": 32,
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"encoder_ratios": [
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2
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],
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"fix_std": 0.5,
|
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+
"layer_scale_init_value": 1e-06,
|
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+
"layernorm": "RMSNorm",
|
| 33 |
+
"layernorm_elementwise_affine": true,
|
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+
"layernorm_eps": 1e-05,
|
| 35 |
+
"mixer_layer": "depthwise_conv",
|
| 36 |
+
"model_type": "kugelaudio_acoustic_tokenizer",
|
| 37 |
+
"pad_mode": "constant",
|
| 38 |
+
"std_dist_type": "gaussian",
|
| 39 |
+
"torch_dtype": "bfloat16",
|
| 40 |
+
"vae_dim": 64,
|
| 41 |
+
"weight_init_value": 0.01
|
| 42 |
+
},
|
| 43 |
+
"acoustic_vae_dim": 64,
|
| 44 |
+
"architectures": [
|
| 45 |
+
"KugelAudioForConditionalGeneration"
|
| 46 |
+
],
|
| 47 |
+
"decoder_config": {
|
| 48 |
+
"attention_dropout": 0.0,
|
| 49 |
+
"hidden_act": "silu",
|
| 50 |
+
"hidden_size": 3584,
|
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+
"initializer_range": 0.02,
|
| 52 |
+
"intermediate_size": 18944,
|
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+
"max_position_embeddings": 32768,
|
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+
"max_window_layers": 28,
|
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