Aratako AI Releases: Irodori-TTS-500M

Irodori-TTS-500M

Irodori-TTS-500M: open Japanese TTS with emoji emotion control

Irodori-TTS-500M is a 500M-parameter open-weights Japanese text-to-speech model released on Hugging Face, notable for controlling emotional delivery through emojis in the input text. It landed as part of the week's wave of voice and audio releases.