Kalpa TTS Beta v0.1 ranks #2 on Audio Realism Bench
ycombinator · x · 2026-09-01
Kalpa Labs released TTS model Beta v0.1, achieving an Elo score of 1331 on the Audio Realism Bench.
- It ranks just behind Bland Speech v3 but ahead of Microsoft's MAI-Voice-2 and ElevenLabs' Eleven v3 Conversational.
- This result highlights the model's competitive performance in speech synthesis realism.
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