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Canopy Labs has introduced Orpheus, a family of state-of-the-art speech large language models (LLMs) designed for human-level speech generation. These models are built on the Llama-3 architecture and are trained on over 100,000 hours of English speech data, enabling them to produce natural intonation, emotion, and rhythm that surpasses current state-of-the-art closed source models. Orpheus supports zero-shot voice cloning, allowing users to replicate voices without prior fine-tuning, and offers guided emotion and intonation control through simple tags. The models achieve low latency, with approximately 200ms streaming latency for real-time applications, reducible to around 100ms with input streaming. Canopy Labs has released both pre-trained and fine-tuned 3B-parameter models under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, with plans to release smaller models of 1B, 400M, and 150M parameters for use on resource-constrained devices.

PaLM API is an easy and safe way to build on top of our best language models. Today, we’re making an efficient model available, in terms of size and capabilities, and we’ll add other sizes soon. The API also comes with an intuitive tool called MakerSuite, which lets you quickly prototype ideas and, over time, will have features for prompt engineering, synthetic data generation and custom-model tuning — all supported by robust safety tools. Select developers can access the PaLM API and MakerSuite in Private Preview today, and stay tuned for our waitlist soon.