Having gone through almost ten rounds of the TTS Arena, XTT2 has tons of artifacts that instantly make it sound non-human. OpenVoice doesn't. It wouldn't surpr

Having gone through almost ten rounds of the TTS Arena, XTT2 has tons of artifacts that instantly make it sound non-human. OpenVoice doesn't. It wouldn't surprise me if people recognize different algorithms and purposefully promote them over others, or alter the page source with a userscript to see the algorithm before listening and click the one they're trying to promote. Looking at the leaderboard, it's obvious there's manipulation going on, because Metavoice is highly ranked but generates absolutely terrible speech with extremely unnatural pauses. Elevenlabs was scarily natural sounding and high quality; the best of the ones I listened to so far. Pheme's speech overall sounds really natural, but has terrible sound quality, which is probably why it's ranked so well. If Pheme could be higher quality audio, it'd probably match Elevenlabs.