Kyutai STT & TTS - A Perfect Local Voice Solution?

Kyutai has released separate speech-to-text and text-to-speech models that offer low latency voice processing for English and French. The TTS model is only 1.6B parameters and performs competitively with commercial solutions like 11 Labs. While the models support voice cloning through embeddings, the voice embedding model itself isn't released for ethical reasons. Users can blend existing voice embeddings to create new voices, but cannot generate embeddings from custom audio samples. The models show promise for local voice applications but are currently limited by language support and the restricted voice cloning capability.