Open-source project: recreating Ani’s original voice using modern neural TTS

Recently Ani’s voice changed, and the original tone/character that many people liked is no longer accessible. For context, Ani is the voice used in the Grok AI companion experience. I had been experimenting with building a VR companion version of Ani for personal AI projects, so when the voice changed it made me realize how much the voice contributed to the overall experience. This got me thinking: with the current generation of open-source neural TTS models, it should be possible to recreate a very close approximation of the original voice if we can assemble a clean dataset.