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VibeVoice-1.5B

Microsoft's MIT-licensed open-weights text-to-speech model for long-form, multi-speaker podcast-style audio (English, Chinese).

  • Microsoft
  • Open weights
  • Released 26 Aug 2025

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Where it ranks

  • C
    Text to speech
    Models · Local · 957 on Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)

Facts

Vendor
Microsoft
Family
VibeVoice
Released
26 Aug 2025
Weights
Open: download and run it yourself
License
MIT
Parameters
2.7B
GPU memory to run locally
~8 GB (Derived: 2.7B parameters (Hugging Face safetensors count) x 2 bytes = ~5.4 GB of bf16 weights, plus overhead.)
Access
Free (open weights)
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Benchmark results

BenchmarkResultEntry on the leaderboardAs ofSource
Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)957VibeVoice 1.5B
Provider Voice Arena, all categories and accents; rank 81 of 96, 2127 appearances, 95% CI ±14; raw value from the page's embedded data (shown rounded); no last-updated date shown, so as_of = retrieval date.
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai

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