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            "what": "646 languages and hours per language",
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            "what": "fal endpoint, the one provider found",
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            "what": "security.txt, none (404)",
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            "what": "community builds and fine-tunes",
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            "what": "Independent benchmark result used for Capability",
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          "Unchecked, GitHub issues on k2-fsa/OmniVoice, the channel the card names, since the GitHub API isn't enabled for this session; responsiveness rests on Hugging Face",
          "Training data scored 5 by the settled reading that a description without a cut-off can't go higher; a reader who takes the published source list and hours as enough would give 20",
          "File safety takes 10 off because the omnivoice package builds the prompt in place of a template, as the first batch read Ming-3.0-tts; a reader who counts only trust_remote_code would give 25",
          "Unchecked, whether a second inference provider serves OmniVoice; fal is the only one found",
          "Whether the fal endpoint's commercial hosting fits the non-commercial licence isn't ours to judge, and it isn't scored",
          "Terms of use read the self-contradicting licence strictly as unclear (0). Read as the card's CC-BY-NC alone, terms are 5 and Reach 45"
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        "3.3 GB of files, about 4 GB in memory, on NVIDIA, Apple Silicon or Intel Arc GPUs",
        "Inline non-verbal tags and pinyin or phoneme pronunciation fixes",
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        "The licence changed from Apache 2.0 on 3 July 2026 with no dated note, and recent licence questions have no reply",
        "Not in any released version of Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio, and no quantised build from k2-fsa",
        "No streaming, no HTTP server and no timestamps",
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        "Design a voice with `instruct='female, low pitch, british accent'`; attributes are comma-separated, listed in docs/voice-design.md",
        "Output is a list of numpy arrays at 24 kHz; write with `sf.write('out.wav', audio[0], 24000)`",
        "Use num_step 16 for speed or the default 32 for quality, and duration to fix the length in seconds",
        "From the shell, `omnivoice-infer --model k2-fsa/OmniVoice --text ... --output out.wav`; `omnivoice-infer-batch` spreads work across GPUs",
        "Check the licence before any commercial use; the card says the weights are CC-BY-NC",
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      "The paper reports SIM-o 0.729 and WER 1.30 on LibriSpeech-PC test-clean and results on Seed-TTS and FLEURS, and the README claims a real-time factor as low as 0.025. These are the publisher's numbers, with evaluation scripts in the repository, not our measurement (https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00688)",
      "The paper's ethics statement says the work is intended only for academic research and isn't used commercially by the authors' institutions (https://arxiv.org/html/2604.00688)",
      "Community builds include GGUF conversions for audio.cpp and MLX conversions from mlx-community, and many fine-tunes for single languages. None is k2-fsa's (https://huggingface.co/api/models?search=omnivoice)"
    ],
    "area": "voice",
    "details": [
      {
        "label": "Surface graded",
        "value": "The open weights at huggingface.co/k2-fsa/OmniVoice, read from the model card and its revisions, the files and their metadata, the configs and licences, the publisher's GitHub repository (k2-fsa/OmniVoice, the omnivoice package source and docs), the paper and the runtimes' own code on 21 October 2026. Nothing was downloaded or run. k2-fsa has no hosted API"
      },
      {
        "label": "Model",
        "value": "A bidirectional Transformer initialised from Qwen3-0.6B (28 layers, hidden size 1024) that maps text straight to 8 codebooks of audio tokens by iterative unmasking, 32 steps by default, with the Higgs Audio v2 tokenizer turning tokens into 24 kHz audio. 612,577,288 F32 parameters in the main checkpoint by the Hub's count; the paper gives 0.8B. Text, optional reference audio and an attribute instruction in, audio out"
      },
      {
        "label": "Languages",
        "value": "646 languages listed in the repository's languages page, 581,000 hours in all, and over 600 in the card's metadata. Voice design was trained on Chinese and English only, per the README"
      },
      {
        "label": "Files",
        "value": "model.safetensors (2.45 GB, F32) and audio_tokenizer/model.safetensors (0.81 GB), 3.27 GB in all, with a SHA-256 for both and for tokenizer.json on the Hub. No pickle files. A chat_template.jinja from the Qwen3 backbone is in the repository but isn't the prompt format; the omnivoice package builds the prompt"
      },
      {
        "label": "Licence",
        "value": "The card says the code is Apache 2.0 and the pre-trained model CC-BY-NC, with no version given and no LICENSE file for the weights. The metadata named apache-2.0 until 3 July 2026 and now names none. audio_tokenizer/LICENSE is the Boson Higgs Audio 2 Community License (Llama 3 terms, its use policy, a 100,000 annual active user threshold, no use of outputs to improve other large language models). The GitHub LICENSE and pyproject say Apache 2.0 for the code. The Qwen3-0.6B base is Apache 2.0"
      },
      {
        "label": "Runtimes",
        "value": "k2-fsa's own omnivoice package (0.2.1, July 2026) on PyTorch with Transformers 5.3 or later for the backbone and tokenizer classes, a Gradio demo and command-line tools, and an optional FlashInfer path. Not in released Transformers as a model type, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio. Community ports run it on audio.cpp and MLX"
      },
      {
        "label": "Input and output",
        "value": "generate takes text, language (name, code or none), and either ref_audio with optional ref_text for cloning, an instruct string of comma-separated attributes (gender, age, pitch, whisper, English accent, Chinese dialect) for design, or neither for an automatic voice. duration, speed and num_step adjust the output, inline tags such as [laughter] add non-verbal sounds, and pinyin or CMU phonemes correct pronunciation. It returns a list of 24 kHz numpy waveforms. No streaming and no HTTP server"
      },
      {
        "label": "Recommended settings",
        "value": "float16 on CUDA in the card's example, 32 diffusion steps or 16 for speed, and voice cloning as the most stable mode. Cloning without ref_text loads a Whisper model to transcribe the clip"
      },
      {
        "label": "Hardware",
        "value": "An NVIDIA GPU (PyTorch 2.8 with CUDA 12.8 in the README), Apple Silicon through mps, or an Intel Arc GPU through xpu. No memory figure is stated; the files are 3.27 GB at F32"
      },
      {
        "label": "Training data",
        "value": "581,000 hours from open-source sets. The paper's appendix lists them, Emilia, Emilia-YODAS, LibriTTS, Common Voice, VoxBox, the Meta Omnilingual ASR Corpus, FLEURS, GigaSpeech 2, YODAS-Granary and others, and the repository gives hours per language. No cut-off is stated"
      }
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      "legalEntity": "k2-fsa, the Next-gen Kaldi open-source project. The paper's authors are at Xiaomi Corp.; no company is named as the licensor",
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      "domainRegistered": "2021-02-08",
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      "privacy": "",
      "statusPage": "",
      "changelog": "https://github.com/k2-fsa/OmniVoice/commits/master",
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      "checked": "2026-10-21",
      "notes": [
        "The card links github.com/k2-fsa/OmniVoice, and the GitHub README links back to huggingface.co/k2-fsa/OmniVoice. The k2-fsa organisation on Hugging Face isn't checked for verification here.",
        "Nothing is hosted, so the licences stand in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.",
        "The Hugging Face history is 18 commits from 30 March to 3 July 2026. The weights haven't changed since 30 March; later commits are card edits and the tokenizer's LICENSE. The GitHub repository has tags 0.1.2 to 0.2.1 (4 April to 16 July 2026) and its last commit on 24 August 2026.",
        "k2-fsa.org/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 21 October 2026, and the GitHub repository has no SECURITY.md. RDAP gives the domain's registration as 8 February 2021."
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          "check": "Legal entity named",
          "value": "k2-fsa, the Next-gen Kaldi open-source project. The paper's authors are at Xiaomi Corp.; no company is named as the licensor",
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          "max": 20,
          "state": "ok"
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          "check": "Domain age",
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          "max": 15,
          "state": "part"
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        {
          "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain",
          "value": "no hosted endpoint",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 0,
          "state": "na"
        },
        {
          "check": "Terms of service",
          "value": "nothing hosted, so the CC-BY-NC (weights, per the card); Apache-2.0 (code) licence stands in",
          "points": 10,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "ok"
        },
        {
          "check": "Privacy policy",
          "value": "nothing hosted, not scored",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 0,
          "state": "na"
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          "check": "Status page",
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