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VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

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448 points lastdong | 4 comments | 03 Sep 25 10:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.72s | source
1. Insanity ◴[03 Sep 25 16:06 UTC] No.45117375[source]▶
What an odd name to me, becaus "Vibe" is, in my mind, equal to somewhat poor quality. Like "Vibe Coding". But that's probably just some bias from my side.
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2. mxfh ◴[03 Sep 25 16:10 UTC] No.45117427[source]▶
Vibe coding just became a term this spring. I doubt that that the substantial part, like giving it a project code name and getting company approval of this research project started after that. It's not libe vibe has a negative connotation in general yet.
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3. Insanity ◴[03 Sep 25 16:31 UTC] No.45117708[source]▶
'Vibe' as a word / product was definitely less common though. I kinda doubt that 'VibeVoice' is _not_ a consequence of 'VibeCode'.

But I do agree with you in that generally there's probably no negative connotation (yet).

4. andrew_lettuce ◴[03 Sep 25 16:41 UTC] No.45117865[source]▶
Vibe always meant "specific feel" and makes sense related to AI coding "by touch" vs. understanding what's actually happening. It's just the results have now made the word pejorative.