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Amphion NaturalSpeech 2 (LibriTTS) is an open-weights text-to-speech model from Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen), released December 2023. Licence: mit.

Catalogue identity notes

amphion/naturalspeech2_libritts: Amphion's reproduction of NaturalSpeech 2 trained on LibriTTS. Microsoft's original NaturalSpeech 2 was never released.

14.0±3.1#117 of 118 text-to-speech modelsfrom 6 benchmark results across 4 sources

Score within the Vapi Humanness · Bradley–Terry rating, 2026-09-25 snapshot comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The text-to-speech models ranked either side of Amphion NaturalSpeech 2 (LibriTTS), out of 148 with a score, then more from Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen).

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
144MMS TTS Turkish Meta18±4local~0.2GB2023-09
145Antalia 1 Patientdesk.ai17±3comparison only2026-09
146Amphion NaturalSpeech 2 (LibriTTS) Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen)14±3local~1.7GB2023-12
147Glow-TTS Common Voice (Turkish) Coqui TTS / Fatih Akademi11±4local~4GB2022-03
148FreyaTTS-small Freya Voice9±4comparison only2026-07
more from Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen)
53MaskGCT Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen)59±1local~6.6GB2024-10
95Amphion VALL-E (LibriLight 6k) Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen)47±14local~1.6GB2024-01
97Vevo (Amphion) Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen)46±3local~6.8GB2024-12

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$ what it's good at

other tests6 not in a task · 96% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
TTSDS2 listening test · speaker-similarity MOS (4 English domains)2.06 / 5 ✎▅·█▅▅·█▃▃▅·▅ beats 0/17easy · avg 4.03 / 5▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 58%at its level
VERSA TTS demo · LibriSpeech test-clean UTMOS2.35 / 5 ✎▄·····▄·▄█·▄ beats 0/5easy · avg 4.11 / 5▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 24%at its level
TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark · English overall (YouTube, 2025 round)81.2% ✎▂▃█·▂·█▆▂·▄▂ beats 1/17very easy · avg 89%▇▇ 6.2%blunt
TTSDS2 listening test · naturalness MOS (4 English domains)2.05 / 5 ✎▅··▃▅··▅█▅██ beats 1/17medium · avg 3.30 / 5▇▇ 5.8%blunt · at its level
TTSDS v1 · default four-factor score82.1% ✎▂▂····▃·▃▅▂█ beats 3/14very easy · avg 86%▇ 1.0%blunt
VERSA TTS demo · LibriSpeech test-clean Whisper WER4.6% ✎▄··········█ beats 5/5avg 6.4%▇ 0.7%blunt · noisy

$ where to run it

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~1.66 GB, NVIDIA only · from huggingface.co/amphion (official)
    git lfs install && git clone https://huggingface.co/amphion/naturalspeech2_libritts && git clone https://github.com/open-mmlab/Amphion.git && cd Amphion && conda create --name amphion python=3.9.15 && conda activate amphion && sh env.sh && mkdir -p ckpts && ln -s ../../../naturalspeech2_libritts ckpts/tts/ && bash egs/tts/NaturalSpeech2/run_inference.sh --text "Hello, world."

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/amphion ↗

$ how the score was worked out · TTSDS2 listening test results… 64%, VERSA toolkit paper: TTS demo… 25%, TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark… 6% and 1 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 64%MIT
VERSA toolkit paper: TTS demonstration (arXiv:2412.17667v2)2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 25%CC BY 4.0
TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)1▇▇ 6%MIT
TTSDS v1 published results1▇ 1%MIT
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 4%
weighted average= 14.0

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