HailuoAI just dropped a new text-to-audio model that lets you clone voices with just 10 seconds of audio. This caught my attention because most voice cloning tools need way more sample data to work properly.
The model, T2A-01-HD, packs some impressive features.
- Voice Customization: You can customize pretty much everything about the voice – pitch, speed, emotional tone, even add studio effects like room acoustics.
- Emotional Intelligence System: They’ve built an emotional intelligence system that picks up on subtle speech patterns, though you can also manually control the emotional expression if you prefer.
- Language Support: What really stands out is the language support. While most text-to-audio tools struggle with non-English languages, this one handles 17+ languages naturally, including regional accents. We’re talking English variants from the US, UK, Australia, and India, plus Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and a bunch of European languages.
- Pre-built Voice Library: They’ve got a library of 300+ pre-built voices to play with, categorized by language, gender, accent, age, and style. This is actually useful if you need different voice types for various projects but don’t want to spend time finding voice actors to sample.
I tested the free version at hailuo.ai/audio, and the quality is surprisingly good. If you’re into development, they’ve got an API platform at intl.minimaxi.com that you can integrate into your projects.
Use Cases
This kind of advancement in voice synthesis is particularly interesting when you combine it with other AI tools. For example, you could pair this with video generation tools like VIDU 2.0 for b-roll to create fully automated video content with custom voices.
