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plapre-nano

Available as managed deployment Audio syvai Text→speech 1 variants 2k dl/mo

plapre-nano is an open-weight audio or speech model from syvai. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

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What it is

Released bysyvai
TypeAudio & music
TaskText→speech
Parameters (lead)335M
Runs withtransformers
Released2026-02-14
Popularity2k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What plapre-nano is

Danish multi-task text-to-speech. A 335M LlamaForCausalLM that autoregressively predicts Kanade 25 Hz audio tokens from Danish BPE text and decodes them to 24 kHz speech. A 128-d speaker embedding — extracted from any reference clip with the Kanade encoder — is projected and prepended to the sequence, so every generation is voiced.

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What it can do

Two tasks:

taskin → out
generatetext → speech in a chosen voice
editan existing recording + new text → the same recording with words substituted, inserted or deleted; only the masked span is regenerated, the surrounding audio is untouched

Four controls that stack onto generate:

controleffect
voice-reference (cloning)speak in the voice of a reference clip (audio + its transcript)
contextcondition on the previous utterance (text + audio) so tone, energy and tempo continue naturally across turns
paceper-word duration targets (40 ms frames) — set the speaking rate, or ramp it within a sentence
pronunciationup to 10 (word, reference-audio) pairs that pin how names, loanwords or acronyms are pronounced

Combining them

Controls are composable — any subset stacks in one prompt, in this block order:

[SPK]  [pronunciation]  [voice-reference]  [context]   BPE  [pace]   …
combinationwhat you get
clone + pacea cloned voice at a pace you set
clone + pronunciationa cloned voice that says a name correctly
clone + contexta cloned voice continuing a conversation
context + pacea conversational reply at a controlled tempo
clone + context + pace + pronunciationall four at once
edit + pronunciationregenerate a span so the corrected word is pronounced right

Voice-reference is the only control that swaps the speaker embedding (to the reference clip's); the others keep the target voice. Edit composes with pronunciation only. All combinations are trained, not emergent.

How to use it

The easiest path is the plapre library, which wraps every task and combination:

from plapre import Plapre

tts = Plapre("syvai/plapre-nano-v2")

# plain TTS
tts.speak("Hej, hvordan har du det?", output="out.wav", split_sentences=True)

# clone a voice from any clip
tts.clone("Denne sætning har stemmen aldrig sagt.", reference_wav="voice.wav")

# cloned voice + set pace + pinned pronunciation, in one call
tts.clone(
    "Mette Frederiksen mødte Volodymyr Zelenskyj i København.",
    reference_wav="voice.wav",
    durations=[14, 22, 12, 24, 4, 18],              # one frame count per word
    pronunciations=[("Zelenskyj", "zelenskyj_ref.wav")],
)

# continue a conversation with matching prosody
tts.continue_context("Og det er derfor, vi handler nu.",
                     prev_text="Situationen har ændret sig markant.",
                     prev_wav="previous_line.wav", speaker_wav="voice.wav")

# edit a recording: replace words in place
tts.edit("… ny formulering her …", mask_start=40, mask_end=55,
         original_wav="clip.wav")

Manual inference (transformers)

import numpy as np, torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

CKPT = "syvai/plapre-nano-v2"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(CKPT)
m = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(CKPT, torch_dtype=torch.float32).eval()
spj = torch.nn.Linear(128, m.config.hidden_size)
spj.load_state_dict(torch.load(hf_hub_download(CKPT, "speaker_proj.pt"), map_location="cpu"))
spj.eval()

g = tok.convert_tokens_to_ids
STOPS = [g(""), tok.eos_token_id]           # stop on BOTH terminators
pre = [g("")] + tok.encode(text, add_special_tokens=False) + [g("")]

pe = m.get_input_embeddings()(torch.tensor(pre))
spk = spj(torch.tensor(np.asarray(speaker_embedding), dtype=torch.float32)).unsqueeze(0)
inp = torch.cat([spk, pe], 0).unsqueeze(0)
out = m.generate(inputs_embeds=inp,
                 attention_mask=torch.ones(inp.shape[:2], dtype=torch.long),
                 max_new_tokens=500, do_sample=True, temperature=0.7,
                 top_p=0.95, top_k=50, eos_token_id=STOPS,
                 pad_token_id=tok.eos_token_id)[0].tolist()
audio_base = g("")
content = []
for t in out:
    if audio_base <= t < audio_base + 12800:
        content.append(t - audio_base)
    elif content:
        break
# decode `content` with kanade_tokenizer (frothywater/kanade-25hz-clean) -> 24 kHz wav

Control-block prompt formats (reference audio caps, `` ids, edit masking/splicing) are implemented in plapre/tasks.py — pure token-layout builders you can read or reuse directly.

Inference requirements

  • Stop on both terminators: generated audio ends then — pass both ids as stop tokens (the library does this for you).
  • Run in fp32 (the training precision). Lower precision measurably increases end-of-utterance artifacts.
  • Use this repo's tokenizer (vocab 21224).
  • End sentences with terminal punctuation — append a "." if your text ends on a comma or nothing; the stop signal is strongest on sentence-final text.
  • Split long text into sentences and generate them as a batch; join with ~250 ms of silence. Speaking pace follows the voice: reference clips from calm speakers yield calm narration.
  • If serving with vLLM, use vllm>=0.15,<0.16 with enable_prompt_embeds=True — newer stacks measurably degrade generation quality on identical weights.
  • Text normalization: collapse whitespace and convert digits to Danish words (num2words, lang="da") before encoding.

Model details

Architecture335M LlamaForCausalLM (SmolLM2 layout, hidden 960, 32 layers) + 128→960 speaker projection (speaker_proj.pt)
Audio codecfrothywater/kanade-25hz-clean — 25 Hz content code

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

How it works

How audio & music work

Audio or textinputAudio modelrecognise / synthesiseText or audiooutputSpeech-to-text turns audio into text; text-to-speech and music models turn text into audio.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys plapre-nano for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (plapre-nano below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -F model="plapre-nano" -F file=@audio.mp3

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