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OmniVoice: Towards Omnilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Diffusion Language Models

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We present OmniVoice, a massive multilingual zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) model that scales to over 600 languages. At its core is a novel diffusion language model-style discrete non-autoregressive (NAR) architecture. Unlike conventional discrete NAR models that suffer from performance bottlenecks in complex two-stage (text-to-semantic-to-acoustic) pipelines, OmniVoice directly maps text to multi-codebook acoustic tokens. This simplified approach is facilitated by two key technical innovations: (1) a full-codebook random masking strategy for efficient training, and (2) initialization from a pre-trained LLM to ensure superior intelligibility. By leveraging a 581k-hour multilingual dataset curated entirely from open-source data, OmniVoice achieves the broadest language coverage to date and delivers state-of-the-art performance across Chinese, English, and diverse multilingual benchmarks. Our code and pre-trained models are publicly available at https://github.com/k2-fsa/OmniVoice.

Han Zhu, Lingxuan Ye, Wei Kang, Zengwei Yao, Liyong Guo, Fangjun Kuang, Zhifeng Han, Weiji Zhuang, Long Lin, Daniel Povey• 2026

Related benchmarks

TaskDatasetResultRank
Text-to-SpeechSeed-TTS en (test)
WER1.6
90
Text-to-SpeechMiniMax Multilingual 24 (test)
WER0.874
75
Text-to-SpeechSeed-TTS zh (test)
WER0.0084
65
Text-to-SpeechLibriSpeech PC clean (test)
WER1.3
31
Text-to-SpeechChinese and English (test)
CMOS0.44
6
Multilingual Text-to-SpeechFLEURS-Multilingual-102 (test)
Average Character Error Rate (CER)4
2
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