Lightweight, finetune‑friendly (soon) TTS. Below are curated samples across voices and prompts. Grab the code, read the write‑up, or try it in Colab. We release code and checkpoints under the MIT license.
Figure 1: Echolancer during pretraining. (not counting speaker conditioning)
Clone any voice with just a short reference clip. Each box shows a reference audio and three cloned samples from the 1.3B model, all reference speakers were unseen in training.
"It wasn’t a big deal at first, just a small inconvenience, but after a while it started adding up, and that’s when things got a little frustrating."
"I get what you’re saying, and I’m not disagreeing, but there’s a part of me that still thinks we should take a moment to reassess everything."
"She sells sea shells by the seashore. Yeah, try saying that fast."
"Mount Everest, located in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and China, remains the highest point on Earth above sea level."
"The Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent under Emperor Trajan, stretching from the Atlantic coast of Portugal to the deserts of Mesopotamia."
"The International Space Station is a modular laboratory orbiting Earth at an altitude of approximately four hundred kilometers, completing one revolution roughly every ninety minutes."
"Photosynthesis is the biological process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria convert sunlight into chemical energy, producing oxygen as a byproduct."
"The city of Tokyo is considered one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world, serving as a major center of finance, culture, and technology."
"The speed of sound varies depending on the medium, traveling faster through liquids and solids than through air due to differences in density and molecular structure."
Each card shows the input text and a playback control
“They all told me you were a fact of life.”
“It was one of those quiet evenings when time seemed to slow down, stretching the seconds into something soft and golden. The street outside was nearly empty, save for the occasional car passing by, its headlights sweeping gently across the walls. Inside, the hum of the refrigerator was the only sound, steady and low, like the background note of a forgotten song”
“The old clock in the hallway still chimed every hour, even though nobody in the house listened anymore”
“But generally, life gives us many things to think about. One of them is credit cards. Did you know credit cards?”
“The president has stated that his policies are superior to that of his opponents, in terms of quantum theory”
(The dog ate the transcript)
“I'll have two number nines, a number nine large, a number six with extra dip, a number seven, two number forty-fives, one with cheese, and a large soda”
“We have a number champion. It is six seven”