TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

F5-TTS is a non-autoregressive, zero-shot text-to-speech system that uses a flow-matching mel spectrogram generator and a diffusion transformer. Built on the MLX framework, F5 improves on previous systems like E2 TTS by using ConvNeXT v2 blocks for better text alignment, producing high-quality speech in around 11 seconds on modern hardware.