AI RESEARCH

Scenema Audio: Zero-shot expressive voice cloning and speech generation [N]

r/MachineLearning

We've been building Scenema Audio as part of our video production platform at scenema.ai, and we're releasing the model weights and inference code. The core idea: emotional performance and voice identity are independent. You describe how the speech should be performed (rage, grief, excitement, a child's wonder), and optionally provide reference audio for voice identity. The reference provides the "who." The prompt provides the "how." Any voice can perform any emotion, even if that voice has never been recorded in that emotional state.