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+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> Microsoft recently released VibeVoice - a high-quality, longform conversational TTS model.
+> Earlier today, they deleted the 7B model from Hugging Face and deleted the GitHub repo.
+> This is a backup of the code (as of ~2 days ago). I have also backed up the models [here](https://huggingface.co/backups) on Hugging Face.
+> Happy to add people as contributors or merge PRs!
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 ## 🎙️ VibeVoice: A Frontier Long Conversational Text-to-Speech Model