Tencent releases AuK, an open-source audio foundation model unifying speech generation and editing
TencentHunyuan · x · 2026-09-10
Tencent Hunyuan launched AuK, an open-source foundation model for unified speech generation and editing driven by natural-language instructions plus reference audio. It covers zero-shot TTS, instruction-controlled generation, content editing, Whisper conversion, de-accenting, timbre/style/emotion edits, speed/pitch control, and enhancement/denoising/multi-speaker/music separation. AuK-Flash offers 4-step inference at 4.5× faster. Code, weights, and demo are live.
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