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Step-Audio-EditX

Open-weights 3B model from StepFun for expressive text-to-speech and iterative editing of emotion and style.

  • StepFun
  • Open weights
  • Released 29 Oct 2025

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Where it ranks

  • C
    Text to speech
    Models · Local · 1,100 on Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)

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Vendor
StepFun
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Step-Audio-EditX
Released
29 Oct 2025
Weights
Open: download and run it yourself
License
Apache-2.0
Parameters
3.53B
GPU memory to run locally
~8 GB (Derived: about 3.53B parameters is roughly 7.1 GB of bf16 weights plus runtime overhead; not an official requirement.)
Access
Free (open weights)
Last verified
19 Oct 2026

Benchmark results

BenchmarkResultEntry on the leaderboardAs ofSource
Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)1,100Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)
Provider Voice Arena, all categories and accents; rank 39 of 96, 2249 appearances; raw value from the page's embedded data; no last-updated date shown, so as_of = retrieval date.
19 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai

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