This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice

This article reviews Zyphra’s open-source Zonos text-to-speech models capable of cloning voices from brief samples, comparing a transformer-only version with a hybrid transformer–Mamba architecture. It details hands-on performance (quality, speed, and GPU requirements), provides quick-start steps using Docker and a Gradio UI, and highlights broader implications—from potential abuse in scams and misinformation to accessibility benefits—while noting the models’ permissive licensing and training data mix.