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Hugging Face and NVIDIA Magpie TTS offer open-weights for building low-latency multilingual voice agents. Engineers gain full deployment control and optimized inference performance for real-time voice applications.
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From Hugging Face blog - “Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS”
NVIDIA Magpie TTS is presented as a model for generating speech. The model is available as open weights. The model is designed for low-latency applications. It supports multiple languages. The model is intended for use in voice agent applications.
Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/magpie-tts-multilingual-voice-agents
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