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2026-08-31
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artificial-intelligence
Choosing TTS Based on Sound Quality Was Too Slow for Conversations — Separating 'Design' and 'Production' with a Measured 2.5x RTF Difference
A developer at Workstyle Tech found that diffusion-based TTS, which generates voices from text captions alone, was too slow for real-time conversations, measuring a 2.5x slower RTF compared to a pre-t…