Ant Group's Ming-3.0-tts is the new #1 open weights model in the Artificial Analysis Controlled Voice TTS Arena and takes the #1 spot on our Pronunciation Robustness leaderboard, level with Fish Audio's Drama 3 Preview and ahead of Eleven v4

Ming-3.0-tts is the new open weights Text to Speech model from @AntGroup team, a dense 0.5B parameter model with preset voices and stateless voice cloning. Weights are available on Hugging Face under the MIT License: Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B, alongside a 7.9B mixture-of-experts variant, Ming-3.0-tts-tiny.

Key takeaways:

➤ Pronunciation Robustness: Ming-3.0-tts scores 93.2%, ranking #1 of 31 models, level with Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview at 93.2% and ahead of Eleven v4 at 91.7%. It ranks #1 in Expanding Shorthand and Preserving Exact Sequences.

➤ Controlled Voice: Ming-3.0-tts is the #1 open weights model with an Elo of 1,069 (+16/-16) across 1,827 appearances, ahead of Drama 3 Preview at 1,059 and Breeze TTS 2 at 1,019. It ranks #13 overall.

➤ Provider Voice: Ming-3.0-tts has an Elo of 1,188 (+15/-15) across 1,957 appearances, ranking #3 among open weights models behind Drama 3 Preview at 1,245 and Breeze TTS 2 at 1,220, and #19 overall.

➤ Open weights: Ming-3.0-tts is the #1 open weights model on two of our three Text to Speech leaderboards, Controlled Voice and Pronunciation Robustness, and #3 on Provider Voice.

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