LAION released Humaneness Voice Converter on October 11 — an open-weights voice-conversion model that aims to keep the emotion and timing of a source speaker while saying their words in a…
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LAION released Humaneness Voice Converter on October 11 — an open-weights voice-conversion model that aims to keep the emotion and timing of a source speaker while saying their words in a different, consenting target voice.
Built on Resemble AI's Chatterbox and trained by the nonprofit behind the LAION datasets, the 264M-parameter checkpoint is published under CC BY 4.0 with weights, code and a demo Space on Hugging Face. A 5–10 second clip of the target speaker is enough to drive it, and it outputs 24 kHz audio.
The team reports higher predicted content and production quality than vanilla Chatterbox on a 40-clip listening set, with closer emotion match — at the cost of slightly weaker target-speaker similarity. Caveat: no independent human MOS yet.
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