Tencent releases AuK, open-source speech generation and editing model
AuK unifies speech generation and editing via natural-language instructions and audio context, built on a multimodal language model, joint VAE, and hybrid rectified-flow Transformer. The AuK-Flash variant does fast 4-step inference via distillation.
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