--- title: VoTSpeech emoji: 🗣️ colorFrom: indigo colorTo: blue sdk: gradio sdk_version: 6.30.0 app_file: app.py short_description: Design a voice from a text description, then speak (zh) python_version: "3.12" license: cc-by-nc-4.0 startup_duration_timeout: 30m models: - Ywbn16/VoTSpeech --- # VoTSpeech — instruction-following voice-design TTS Demo of [**VoTSpeech**](https://huggingface.co/Ywbn16/VoTSpeech) (*Decoupling Voice Design from Speech Generation in Instruction-Following TTS*, code: [ywbn/VoTSpeech](https://github.com/ywbn/VoTSpeech)). Given text and a natural-language voice description, it designs a continuous voice latent and generates 48 kHz speech in that voice. Built on [dots.tts-soar](https://huggingface.co/dots-studio/dots.tts-soar). Trained for Mandarin Chinese. The `dots_tts/` package is the authors' inference code (Apache-2.0). Model weights: CC BY-NC 4.0 — non-commercial use only. Example prompts come from the authors' project page. Generated audio is synthetic speech; do not impersonate identifiable people without permission.