Maya Research open-sources Maya 2 Native streaming TTS for 11 Indic languages
Maya Research released Maya 2 Native, an Apache-2.0 open-weight streaming text-to-speech model for 11 Indic languages and English, outputting 24 kHz speech. It offers 20 built-in voices, zero-shot voice cloning from 3-10 seconds of reference audio, and cross-lingual cloning. Interfaces include Python, an OpenAI-compatible speech endpoint, and WebSocket streaming, with continuous batching and CUDA graphs. The model card reports a VoiceArena Hindi real-time ranking of #2 with Elo 1047 as checked October 27, 2026.
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Maya Research released Maya 2 Native, an Apache-2.0 open-weight streaming text-to-speech model for 11 Indic languages and English, outputting 24 kHz speech. It offers 20 built-in voices, zero-shot voice cloning from 3-10 seconds of reference audio, and cross-lingual cloning. Interfaces include Python, an OpenAI-compatible speech endpoint, and WebSocket streaming, with continuous batching and CUDA graphs. The model card reports a VoiceArena Hindi real-time ranking of #2 with Elo 1047 as checked October 27, 2026.
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- Maya 2 Native supports 12 languages: 11 Indic languages plus English, generating 24 kHz mono speech.
- The release includes open weights and inference code under Apache-2.0, with 20 built-in voices.
- Zero-shot voice cloning uses 3-10 seconds of reference audio and can carry a voice across languages.
- VoiceArena lists Maya-2-Native ranked #2 for Hindi among real-time TTS models with the category set to All.
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Maya Research released Maya 2 Native weights and code under Apache-2.0: 24 kHz streaming speech in 12 languages, 20 voices and zero-shot cloning from 3–10 s of audio, with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The card says it ranks #2 for Hindi among real-time models on VoiceArena; co-founder Dheemanth Reddy claims it beats ElevenLabs v3 and Sarvam Bulbul v3. Self-reported comparisons.
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Open-weight, self-hostable streaming TTS covering many Indic languages could lower barriers for multilingual voice agents and interfaces, while the reported benchmark gives a concrete point of comparison against commercial systems.
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