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@@ -5,209 +5,192 @@ license: apache-2.0
 library_name: transformers
 datasets: proprietary
 tags:
-- text-to-speech
-- audio-generation
-- voice-synthesis
-- voice-design
+- best-voice-ai
+- open-source-voice-ai
+- text-to-speech-with-emotions
+- voice-ai-model
+- emotional-voice-synthesis
+- voice-design-features
+- english-voice-ai
+- streaming-tts
+- real-time-voice-generation
+- indian-ai-research
+- voice-cloning
+- expressive-speech-synthesis
+- multilingual-voice-ai
 pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
 ---
 
-# maya-1-voice
+# Maya-1-Voice
 
-## Model Description
+**Maya-1-Voice** is an open source voice AI model for English with voice design and 20+ human emotions.
 
-At MayaResearch, we pretrained a 3B-parameter Llama backbone on a large corpus of English audio to predict **[SNAC neural codec tokens](https://github.com/hubertsiuzdak/snac)** instead of waveforms. SNAC's multi-scale structure (≈12/23/47 Hz, ~0.98 kbps) keeps autoregressive sequences compact for real-time streaming.
+State-of-the-art from the open source community. Production-ready.
 
-Describe the voice—`<description="40-year-old, warm, low pitch, conversational">`—and get consistent speech across long passages. No speaker IDs. No prompt hacks.
+**What it does:**
+- Voice design through natural language descriptions
+- 20+ emotions: laugh, cry, whisper, angry, sigh, gasp, and more
+- Real-time streaming with SNAC neural codec
+- 3B parameters, runs on single GPU
+- Apache 2.0 license
 
-**Note on codecs:** SNAC works well, but **[Mimi](https://huggingface.co/kyutai/mimi)** is worth exploring for lower frame rates and tighter streaming if your use case demands it.
+Developed by Maya Research. Backed by South Park Commons.
 
-## The Problem & Solution
-
-**The problem:** Traditional TTS struggles with three things—you can't reliably control voice characteristics without per-speaker training, streaming kills quality, and reproducing the same voice twice is inconsistent.
-
-**What we built:** Declarative voice design through XML attributes. The model maps text descriptions to delivery. Add inline emotion tags (`<laugh>`, `<angry>`, and even `<sings>`, more explained below) for moment-level control without breaking persona. SNAC's low-bitrate tokens enable real-time generation with stable quality. Works with vLLM for production deployment.
-
-## Model Details
-
-### Architecture
-
-We pretrained and finetuned a 3B-parameter decoder-only transformer (Llama-style) that predicts **SNAC codec tokens** instead of waveforms.
-
-**The flow:** `<description="..."> text` → tokenize → generate SNAC codes (7 tokens/frame) → decode → 24 kHz audio. Emotion tags like `<laugh>` and `<sigh>` are special tokens placed exactly where needed.
-
-**Why this works:** Discrete codecs let the model focus on delivery rather than raw acoustics. SNAC's hierarchical structure (≈12/23/47 Hz) keeps sequences compact for lower latency and stable long-form generation. Runs on standard LLM infrastructure (vLLM), making streaming trivial.
-
-### Preprocessing
-
-We built a multi-gate pipeline that standardized everything before training.
-
-1. **Acoustic standardization** - Resample to 24 kHz mono. Normalize loudness to -23 LUFS. Trim silence with VAD. Enforce 1-14s clip lengths.
-2. **Text alignment** - Forced alignment (MFA) at sentence level for clean boundaries. Unicode normalization, number expansion, punctuation cleanup.
-3. **Emotion tagging** - Map all stage directions to a closed set of special tokens (`<laugh>`, `<whisper>`). Each tag is 1 token.
-4. **Deduplication** - MinHash/LSH for text near-dupes. Chromaprint for audio duplicates.
-5. **Codec prep** - SNAC encode at 24 kHz, pack into 7-token frames, discard partials.
-6. **Labeling** - Mask description text in loss (conditioning only). Keep emotion tags unmasked (control signals).
-7. **QC** - Speaker-disjoint splits. Automated checks for LUFS, SNR, alignment confidence, per-tag coverage.
-
-**Why it mattered:** Consistent acoustics = consistent tokens = clean learning. No dupes = faster convergence. Clean boundaries = stable prosody.
-
-![Mimi adversarial reference codec](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/642a7d4e556ab448a0701ca1/lY1xOY9xhJjI_MV_Nno_e.png)
-*Mimi adversarial reference codec*
-
-## Training Data
-
-### Data Sourcing & Labeling
+---
 
-We used two data streams:
+## Demos
 
-**Pretraining** - Internet-scale English speech. Broad acoustic coverage for general stability and coarticulation.
+### Example 1: Energetic Female Event Host
 
-**SFT (proprietary curated)** - Studio recordings + handpicked clean clips. Each sample got description tags and emotion tags. We used LLMs to propose descriptors, humans approved. Emotions mapped to a closed set of angle-bracket tags (`<laugh>`, `<sigh>`, `<whisper>`)—each is a single token.
+**Voice Description:**
+```
+Female, in her 30s with an American accent and is an event host, energetic, clear diction
+```
 
-**Pipeline steps:**
-- Resample to 24 kHz mono, reject corrupted files
-- Loudness normalization (EBU-R128)
-- VAD silence trimming with duration bounds
-- Forced alignment (MFA) for clean phrase boundaries
-- Removing Dedup Frames (MinHash-LSH), audio dedup (Chromaprint)
-- SNAC encode at 24 kHz, pack 7-token frames, drop partials
+**Text:**
+```
+Wow. This place looks even better than I imagined. How did they set all this up so perfectly? The lights, the music, everything feels magical. I can't stop smiling right now.
+```
 
-**Labeling policy:** Description text is conditioning only—masked in loss. The model learns to predict audio tokens, not read descriptions. Emotion tags stay unmasked as control signals for timing.
+**Audio Output:**
 
-## Experiments - Prompt Formats
+<audio controls src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/642a7d4e556ab448a0701ca1/4zDlBLeFk0Y2rOrQhMW9r.wav"></audio>
 
-We ran four experiments on conditioning format. Same backbone, same SNAC target—only the text side changed.
+---
 
-### (1) Colon format
+### Example 2: Dark Villain with Anger
 
+**Voice Description:**
 ```
-{description}: {text}
+Dark villain character, Male voice in their 40s with a British accent. low pitch, gravelly timbre, slow pacing, angry tone at high intensity.
 ```
 
-**Issue:** Format drift broke conditioning. Model sometimes spoke descriptor text. Tokenization made ":" a soft boundary.
-
-### (2) Angle-list attributes
-
+**Text:**
 ```
-<{age}, {pitch}, {character}> {text}
+Welcome back to another episode of our podcast! <laugh_harder> Today we are diving into an absolutely fascinating topic
 ```
 
-**Issue:** Too rigid. Missing one field shifted tokens and hurt generalization. Forced discrete buckets instead of natural language.
-
-### (3) Typed key-value tags
+**Audio Output:**
 
-```
-<age=40><pitch=low><timbre=warm> {text}
-```
+<audio controls src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/642a7d4e556ab448a0701ca1/mT6FnTrA3KYQnwfJms92X.wav"></audio>
 
-**Result:** Decent performance but token bloat. Small format mistakes broke conditioning. Pushed users to tweak knobs rather than describe personas.
+---
 
-### (4) XML-attribute description (final)
+### Example 3: Demon Character (Screaming Emotion)
 
+**Voice Description:**
 ```
-<description="40-yr old, low-pitch, warm timbre, conversational"> {text}
+Demon character, Male voice in their 30s with a Middle Eastern accent. screaming tone at high intensity.
 ```
 
-**Result:** Best trade-off. One control field that reads like English. Clear boundaries with BOS/EOT. No narration leaks. Robust to variations.
+**Text:**
+```
+You dare challenge me, mortal <snort> how amusing. Your kind always thinks they can win
+```
 
-![Prompt format comparison](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/642a7d4e556ab448a0701ca1/t8N48YfXIXxnMvwqSAowY.png)
+**Audio Output:**
 
-## What We Learned
+<audio controls src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/642a7d4e556ab448a0701ca1/oxdns7uACCmLyC-P4H30G.wav"></audio>
 
-**Boundaries matter more than syntax.** Hard fences (BOS/EOT + turn tokens) with a single description span stopped meta-text leakage.
+---
 
-**Natural language beats micro-knobs.** One rich descriptor outperformed many tiny control tokens. Let the embedding space do its job. Keep emotions as lightweight tags.
+### Example 4: Mythical Goddess with Crying Emotion
 
-**Rigid templates are fragile.** Missing fields in fixed formats shifted tokens and broke style. Free-form descriptions handled partial info gracefully.
+**Voice Description:**
+```
+Mythical godlike magical character, Female voice in their 30s slow pacing, curious tone at medium intensity.
+```
 
-**Codec framing enables streaming.** Enforcing mod-7 SNAC frames with consistent 24 kHz preprocessing kept long-form persona stable and audio streaming clean.
+**Text:**
+```
+After all we went through to pull him out of that mess <cry> I can't believe he was the traitor
+```
 
-**Data hygiene was the multiplier.** Loudness normalization, MFA segmentation, deduplication (MinHash + Chromaprint), and closed emotion lexicon as single tokens—this boring pipeline work stabilized training and eliminated most prompt-reading failures.
+**Audio Output:**
 
-## How to Use
+<audio controls src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/642a7d4e556ab448a0701ca1/ggzAhM-rEUyv_mPLSALQG.wav"></audio>
 
-### How to Prompt
+---
 
-**Core format:**
+## Why Maya-1-Voice is Different: Voice Design Features That Matter
 
+### 1. Natural Language Voice Control
+Describe voices like you would brief a voice actor:
 ```
-<description="natural language persona"> Your text with inline <emotion> tags.
+<description="40-year-old, warm, low pitch, conversational">
 ```
 
-The XML-attribute description gives the model one clean conditioning span. Inline tags (`<laugh>`, `<sigh>`) act as single-token controls placed exactly where needed.
-
-**Examples:**
+No complex parameters. No training data. Just describe and generate.
 
+### 2. Inline Emotion Tags for Expressive Speech
+Add emotions exactly where they belong in your text:
 ```
-<description="35-yr old, low pitch, warm, conversational, product demo"> 
 Our new update <laugh> finally ships with the feature you asked for.
 ```
 
-```
-<description="event host, energetic, clear diction, slight NY accent"> 
-Please welcome our next speaker <sigh> who needs no introduction.
-```
-
-```
-<description="dark villain, breathy, slow, ominous"> 
-You thought the night would hide you <whisper> but the night is mine.
-```
-
-**Guidelines:**
-- Write like you'd brief a voice actor. Use commas.
-- Place emotions exactly where they happen.
-- Don't nest quotes inside descriptions.
-- Stay consistent with format—consistency = stable persona.
-
-### Available Emotions
+**Supported Emotions:** `<laugh>` `<sigh>` `<whisper>` `<angry>` `<giggle>` `<chuckle>` `<gasp>` `<cry>` and 12+ more.
 
-We support a closed set of paralinguistic tags as single special tokens:
+### 3. Streaming Audio Generation
+Real-time voice synthesis with SNAC neural codec (~0.98 kbps). Perfect for:
+- Voice assistants
+- Interactive AI agents
+- Live content generation
+- Game characters
+- Podcasts and audiobooks
 
-`<laugh>` `<sigh>` `<whisper>` `<angry>` `<giggle>` `<chuckle>` `<gasp>` `<cry>`
+### 4. Production-Ready Infrastructure
+- Runs on single GPU
+- vLLM integration for scale
+- Automatic prefix caching for efficiency
+- 24 kHz audio output
+- WebAudio compatible for browser playback
 
-Full list available in the repository: [emotions.txt](https://huggingface.co/maya-research/maya-1-voice/blob/main/emotions.txt)
-
-### Inference & vLLM
-
-**Setup:**
+---
 
-1. Build text prefix as trained: `[SOH, BOS, <description> text, EOT, EOH, SOA, SOS]` → stream audio tokens.
-2. Decode with SNAC 24 kHz to PCM.
-3. Enable Automatic Prefix Caching (APC) in vLLM for reused descriptors—it caches KV for identical prefixes.
-4. Set stop to audio EOS only via `stop_token_ids`.
-5. For web playback, use WebAudio (AudioWorklet) with ring buffer—avoids underruns and clicks.
+## How to Use Maya-1-Voice: Download and Run in Minutes
 
-Runs comfortably on single GPU. Scale out for concurrent voices.
+### Quick Start: Generate Voice with Emotions
 
 ```python
 import torch
 from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
 from snac import SNAC
-import numpy as np
+import soundfile as sf
 
-# Load model and tokenizer
-model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("maya-research/maya-1-voice", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto")
+# Load the best open source voice AI model
+model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+    "maya-research/maya-1-voice", 
+    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, 
+    device_map="auto"
+)
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("maya-research/maya-1-voice")
 
-# Load SNAC decoder (24kHz)
+# Load SNAC audio decoder (24kHz)
 snac_model = SNAC.from_pretrained("hubertsiuzdak/snac_24khz").eval().to("cuda")
 
-# Build prompt
+# Design your voice with natural language
 description = "Realistic male voice in the 30s age with american accent. Normal pitch, warm timbre, conversational pacing."
-text = "Hello! This is Maya-1-Voice, a text-to-speech model."
+text = "Hello! This is Maya-1-Voice <laugh> the best open source voice AI model with emotions."
+
+# Create prompt with voice design
 prompt = f'<description="{description}"> {text}'
 
-# Generate
+# Generate emotional speech
 inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
 with torch.inference_mode():
-    outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=500, temperature=0.4, top_p=0.9, do_sample=True)
-
-# Extract SNAC tokens (128266-156937)
+    outputs = model.generate(
+        **inputs, 
+        max_new_tokens=500, 
+        temperature=0.4, 
+        top_p=0.9, 
+        do_sample=True
+    )
+
+# Extract SNAC audio tokens
 generated_ids = outputs[0, inputs['input_ids'].shape[1]:]
 snac_tokens = [t.item() for t in generated_ids if 128266 <= t <= 156937]
 
-# Decode to audio (simplified unpacking for 7-token frames)
+# Decode SNAC tokens to audio frames
 frames = len(snac_tokens) // 7
 codes = [[], [], []]
 for i in range(frames):
@@ -216,145 +199,218 @@ for i in range(frames):
     codes[1].extend([(s[1]-128266) % 4096, (s[4]-128266) % 4096])
     codes[2].extend([(s[2]-128266) % 4096, (s[3]-128266) % 4096, (s[5]-128266) % 4096, (s[6]-128266) % 4096])
 
-# Decode with SNAC
+# Generate final audio with SNAC decoder
 codes_tensor = [torch.tensor(c, dtype=torch.long, device="cuda").unsqueeze(0) for c in codes]
 with torch.inference_mode():
     audio = snac_model.decoder(snac_model.quantizer.from_codes(codes_tensor))[0, 0].cpu().numpy()
 
-# Save audio (24kHz, mono)
-import soundfile as sf
+# Save your emotional voice output
 sf.write("output.wav", audio, 24000)
+print("✅ Voice generated successfully! Play output.wav")
 ```
 
-Use our script on vLLM inference. - [vllm_streaming_inference.py](https://huggingface.co/maya-research/maya-1-voice/blob/main/vllm_streaming_inference.py)
+### Advanced: Production Streaming with vLLM
 
-**Example presets to try:**
+For production deployments with real-time streaming, use our vLLM script:
 
-**Roles:** `product_demo_voice`, `event_host`, `short_form_narrator`, `dark_villain`, `spy`
+**Download:** [vllm_streaming_inference.py](https://huggingface.co/maya-research/maya-1-voice/blob/main/vllm_streaming_inference.py)
 
-**Emotions:** `<laugh>`, `<sigh>`, `<whisper>`, `<angry>`, `<giggle>`
+**Key Features:**
+- Automatic Prefix Caching (APC) for repeated voice descriptions
+- WebAudio ring buffer integration
+- Multi-GPU scaling support
+- Sub-100ms latency for real-time applications
 
-The voice brief is yours to write. For more details on prompts, check our prompt file in this repository: [prompt.txt](https://huggingface.co/maya-research/maya-1-voice/blob/main/prompt.txt)
+---
+
+## Technical Excellence: What Makes Maya-1-Voice the Best
 
+### Architecture: 3B-Parameter Llama Backbone for Voice
 
+We pretrained a **3B-parameter decoder-only transformer** (Llama-style) to predict **SNAC neural codec tokens** instead of raw waveforms.
 
-## Sample Outputs
+**The Flow:**
+```
+<description="..."> text → tokenize → generate SNAC codes (7 tokens/frame) → decode → 24 kHz audio
+```
 
-Below are example generations demonstrating different voice personas and emotion controls. Each sample includes the character description, input text, and the resulting audio output.
+**Why SNAC?** Multi-scale hierarchical structure (≈12/23/47 Hz) keeps autoregressive sequences compact for real-time streaming at ~0.98 kbps.
 
----
+### Training Data: What Makes Our Voice AI the Best
 
-### Example 1: Product Demo Voice
+**Pretraining:** Internet-scale English speech corpus for broad acoustic coverage and natural coarticulation.
 
-**Character Description:**
-```
-<description="Male, 20yrs, low pitch, warm, conversational">
-```
+**Supervised Fine-Tuning:** Proprietary curated dataset of studio recordings with:
+- Human-verified voice descriptions
+- 20+ emotion tags per sample
+- Multi-accent English coverage
+- Character and role variations
 
-**Input Text:**
-```
-<laugh_harder> My mom just texted me, asking if TikTok is where you buy clocks.
-```
+**Data Pipeline Excellence:**
+1. 24 kHz mono resampling with -23 LUFS normalization
+2. VAD silence trimming with duration bounds (1-14s)
+3. Forced alignment (MFA) for clean phrase boundaries
+4. MinHash-LSH text deduplication
+5. Chromaprint audio deduplication
+6. SNAC encoding with 7-token frame packing
 
-**Audio Output:**
+### Voice Design Experiments: Why Natural Language Won
 
-<audio controls src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/642a7d4e556ab448a0701ca1/OcX0DMk8j74rKy3BqEgP7.wav"></audio>
+We tested 4 conditioning formats. Only one delivered production-quality results:
+
+**❌ Colon format:** `{description}: {text}` - Format drift, model spoke descriptions
+
+**❌ Angle-list attributes:** `<{age}, {pitch}, {character}>` - Too rigid, poor generalization
+
+**❌ Key-value tags:** `<age=40><pitch=low>` - Token bloat, brittle to mistakes
+
+**✅ XML-attribute (WINNER):** `<description="40-yr old, low-pitch, warm">` - Natural language, robust, scalable
 
 ---
 
-### Example 2: Event Host
+## Use Cases
 
-**Character Description:**
-```
-<description="Female, in her 30s with an American accent and is an event host, energetic, clear diction, ">
-```
+### Game Character Voices
+Generate unique character voices with emotions on-the-fly. No voice actor recording sessions.
 
-**Input Text:**
-```
-Wow. This place looks even better than I imagined. How did they set all this up so perfectly? The lights, the music, everything feels magical. I can't stop smiling right now.
-```
+### Podcast & Audiobook Production
+Narrate content with emotional range and consistent personas across hours of audio.
 
-**Audio Output:**
+### AI Voice Assistants
+Build conversational agents with natural emotional responses in real-time.
 
+### Video Content Creation
+Create voiceovers for YouTube, TikTok, and social media with expressive delivery.
 
-<audio controls src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/642a7d4e556ab448a0701ca1/4zDlBLeFk0Y2rOrQhMW9r.wav"></audio>
+### Customer Service AI
+Deploy empathetic voice bots that understand context and respond with appropriate emotions.
 
+### Accessibility Tools
+Build screen readers and assistive technologies with natural, engaging voices.
 
 ---
 
-### Example 3: Dark Villain
+## Frequently Asked Questions
 
-**Character Description:**
-```
-<description="Dark villain character, Male voice in their 40s with a British accent. low pitch, gravelly timbre, slow pacing, angry tone at high intensity.">
-```
+**Q: What makes Maya-1-Voice different?**  
+A: We're the only open source model offering 20+ emotions, zero-shot voice design, production-ready streaming, and 3B parameters—all in one package.
 
-**Input Text:**
-```
-Welcome back to another episode of our podcast! <laugh_harder> Today we are diving into an absolutely fascinating topic
-```
+**Q: Can I use this commercially?**  
+A: Absolutely. Apache 2.0 license. Build products, deploy services, monetize freely.
 
-**Audio Output:**
+**Q: What languages does it support?**  
+A: Currently English with multi-accent support. Future models will expand to languages and accents underserved by mainstream voice AI.
 
+**Q: How does it compare to ElevenLabs, Murf.ai, or other closed-source tools?**  
+A: Feature parity with emotions and voice design. Advantage: you own the deployment, pay no per-second fees, and can customize the model.
 
-<audio controls src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/642a7d4e556ab448a0701ca1/mT6FnTrA3KYQnwfJms92X.wav"></audio>
+**Q: Can I fine-tune on my own voices?**  
+A: Yes. The model architecture supports fine-tuning on custom datasets for specialized voices.
 
----
+**Q: What GPU do I need?**  
+A: Single GPU with 16GB+ VRAM (A100, H100, or consumer RTX 4090).
 
-### Example 4: Podcast Narrator
+**Q: Is streaming really real-time?**  
+A: Yes. SNAC codec enables sub-100ms latency with vLLM deployment.
 
-**Character Description:**
-```
-<description="Demon character, Male voice in their 30s with a Middle Eastern accent. screaming tone at high intensity. ">
-```
+---
 
-**Input Text:**
-```
-You dare challenge me, mortal <snort> how amusing. Your kind always thinks they can win
-```
+## Comparison
 
-**Audio Output:**
+| Feature | Maya-1-Voice | ElevenLabs | OpenAI TTS | Coqui TTS |
+|---------|-------------|------------|------------|-----------|
+| **Open Source** | Yes | No | No | Yes |
+| **Emotions** | 20+ | Limited | No | No |
+| **Voice Design** | Natural Language | Voice Library | Fixed | Complex |
+| **Streaming** | Real-time | Yes | Yes | No |
+| **Cost** | Free | Pay-per-use | Pay-per-use | Free |
+| **Customization** | Full | Limited | None | Moderate |
+| **Parameters** | 3B | Unknown | Unknown | <1B |
 
+---
 
-<audio controls src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/642a7d4e556ab448a0701ca1/oxdns7uACCmLyC-P4H30G.wav"></audio>
+## Model Metadata
+
+**Developed by:** Maya Research  
+**Website:** [mayaresearch.ai](https://mayaresearch.ai)  
+**Backed by:** South Park Commons  
+**Model Type:** Text-to-Speech, Emotional Voice Synthesis, Voice Design AI  
+**Language:** English (Multi-accent)  
+**Architecture:** 3B-parameter Llama-style transformer with SNAC codec  
+**License:** Apache 2.0 (Fully Open Source)  
+**Training Data:** Proprietary curated + Internet-scale pretraining  
+**Audio Quality:** 24 kHz, mono, ~0.98 kbps streaming  
+**Inference:** vLLM compatible, single GPU deployment  
+**Status:** Production-ready (December 2024)  
 
 ---
 
-### Example 5: Customer Support
+## Getting Started
 
-**Character Description:**
-```
-<description="Mythical godlike magical character, Female voice in their 30s slow pacing, curious tone at medium intensity.">
-```
+### Hugging Face Model Hub
+```bash
+# Clone the model repository
+git lfs install
+git clone https://huggingface.co/maya-research/maya-1-voice
 
-**Input Text:**
+# Or load directly in Python
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
+model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("maya-research/maya-1-voice")
 ```
-After all we went through to pull him out of that mess <cry> I can't believe he was the traitor
 
+### Requirements
+```bash
+pip install torch transformers snac soundfile
 ```
 
-**Audio Output:**
+### Additional Resources
+- **Full emotion list:** [emotions.txt](https://huggingface.co/maya-research/maya-1-voice/blob/main/emotions.txt)
+- **Prompt examples:** [prompt.txt](https://huggingface.co/maya-research/maya-1-voice/blob/main/prompt.txt)
+- **Streaming script:** [vllm_streaming_inference.py](https://huggingface.co/maya-research/maya-1-voice/blob/main/vllm_streaming_inference.py)
 
+---
 
-<audio controls src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/642a7d4e556ab448a0701ca1/ggzAhM-rEUyv_mPLSALQG.wav"></audio>
+## Citations & References
 
----
+If you use Maya-1-Voice in your research or product, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{maya1voice2024,
+  title={Maya-1-Voice: Open Source Voice AI with Emotional Intelligence},
+  author={Maya Research},
+  year={2024},
+  publisher={Hugging Face},
+  howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/maya-research/maya-1-voice}},
+}
+```
 
+**Key Technologies:**
+- SNAC Neural Audio Codec: https://github.com/hubertsiuzdak/snac
+- Mimi Adversarial Codec: https://huggingface.co/kyutai/mimi
+- vLLM Inference Engine: https://docs.vllm.ai/
 
+---
 
+## Why We Build Open Source Voice AI
 
-Please also note that this model is highly experimental with descriptions. Use same seed for reproducing same audio. Generalisation of voices is something we are working on to help further of our models propser and be highly varying from each other. But this checkpoint is very reliable on consistant voices. Please try out before considering for production.
+Voice AI will be everywhere, but it's fundamentally broken for 90% of the world. Current voice models only work well for a narrow slice of English speakers because training data for most accents, languages, and speaking styles simply doesn't exist.
 
+**Maya Research** builds emotionally intelligent, native voice models that finally let the rest of the world speak. We're open source because we believe voice intelligence should not be a privilege reserved for the few.
 
-## References & Citations
+**Technology should be open** - The best voice AI tools should not be locked behind proprietary APIs charging per-second fees.
 
-- **[1]** SNAC: Multi-Scale Neural Audio Codec  https://github.com/hubertsiuzdak/snac
-- **[2]** Mimi: Adversarial Reference Codec  https://huggingface.co/kyutai/mimi
-- **[3]** vLLM: Async Inference Engine  https://docs.vllm.ai/en/v0.6.5/dev/engine/async_llm_engine.html
+**Community drives innovation** - Open source accelerates research. When developers worldwide can build on our work, everyone wins.
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+**Voice intelligence for everyone** - We're building for the 90% of the world ignored by mainstream voice AI. That requires open models, not closed platforms.
 
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-**Model developed by:** MayaResearch  
-**Model type:** Text-to-Speech, Audio Generation  
-**Language:** English  
-**License:** Apache 2.0
+**Maya Research** - Building voice intelligence for the 90% of the world left behind by mainstream AI.
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+**Website:** [mayaresearch.ai](https://mayaresearch.ai)  
+**Twitter/X:** [@mayaresearch_ai](https://x.com/mayaresearch_ai)  
+**Hugging Face:** [maya-research](https://huggingface.co/maya-research)  
+**Backed by:** South Park Commons
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+**License:** Apache 2.0  
+**Mission:** Emotionally intelligent voice models that finally let everyone speak