Overview

FireRedTTS3 is a unified speech generation and editing system built on semantically enriched continuous speech representations. It comes in two variants:

• FireRedTTS3-Base — zero-shot voice cloning across 24 languages and 21 Chinese dialects
• FireRedTTS3-Instruct — natural-language voice design and speech editing (semantic + acoustic) in one unified model

Highlights ✨

• 🌍 Multilingual — 24 Languages — Best average WER/CER (avg 3.754%) and best average speaker similarity on MiniMax-MLS-Test (avg 84.8%), plus best-in-class cloning WER/CER (avg 3.04%) and similarity on Seed-TTS-eval (avg 78.8%). Supported languages: Arabic · Cantonese · Chinese · Czech · Dutch · English · Finnish · French · German · Greek · Hindi · Indonesian · Italian · Japanese · Korean · Polish · Portuguese · Romanian · Russian · Spanish · Thai · Turkish · Ukrainian · Vietnamese
• 🗣️ Multi-Dialect — 21 Chinese Dialects — Zero-shot voice cloning across major Chinese dialect groups. Supported dialects: Anhui · Fujian · Gansu · Guizhou · Hebei · Henan · Hubei · Hunan · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Minnan · Ningxia · Shaanxi · Shandong · Shanghai · Shanxi · Sichuan · Tianjin · Wenzhou · Wu · Yunnan
• 🎨 Instruction-Controlled Voice Design — Generate a brand-new voice from a natural-language description (gender, age, timbre, emotion, pace, accent…) with no reference audio, guided by an explicit textual plainning step before synthesis.
• ✂️ Free-Form Speech Editing — Semantic editing (insertion / deletion / substitution) and acoustic editing (speed / pitch / volume) driven by free-form instructions.

News

• [2026.08.05] We release FireRedTTS3-Base
• [2026.08.13] We release the FireRedTTS3-Instruct model & code

Roadmap

• Release the FireRedTTS3-Base model
• Release the FireRedTTS3-Instruct model
• Release the technical report

Contents

• Quick Start
• Model
• Performance
• Usage Disclaimer
• Citation
• Acknowledgements
• License

Quick Start 🚀

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/FireRedTeam/FireRedTTS3.git
cd FireRedTTS3

Installation with pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

Model Download

Download the pretrained model from Hugging Face with the hf CLI:

pip install "huggingface_hub[cli]"
hf download FireRedTeam/FireRedTTS3 --local-dir pretrained_models/

Alternatively, you can download model from ModelScope

pip install modelscope
modelscope download --model FireRedTeam/FireRedTTS3 --local_dir pretrained_models/

Configure Text Frontend

Language Recognition (Optional)

FireRedTTS3-Base relies on explicit language tags for best performance. However, if you don't know the exact language of the text, you can download Meta's FastText language-id model and let it detect the language automatically.

# Download FastText language-id model (lid.176) with:
curl -L -o fireredtts3/utils/llm_tn/models/lid.176.ftz https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fasttext/supervised-models/lid.176.ftz

Text Normalization (TN)

TN converts written numbers, dates, units, currencies, acronyms, etc. into their spoken form (e.g. 19:30 → nineteen thirty). By default, FireRedTTS3 uses the wetext TN tool, which supports Chinese and English, other languages (e.g. Japanese, Russian) undergo only basic cleaning. For full language TN support, enable the LLM-based TN by passing use_llm_tn=True when initializing FireRedTTS3. It reads its config from a .env file:

cp .env.example .env

# Then fill in your values
LLM_TN_API_URL=https://api.deepseek.com/chat/completions   # any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
LLM_TN_API_KEY=sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
LLM_TN_MODEL=deepseek-v4-flash                             # or any model >= 30B

Python API

For the best voice cloning performance, use a prompt in the desired language or dialect, since the output inherits the speaking style of the reference. For example, provide a Japanese prompt when synthesizing Japanese and a Sichuanese prompt when synthesizing Sichuanese.

import torch
import torchaudio
from fireredtts3.core import FireRedTTS3

# Init model: choose the text-normalization frontend here.
#   use_wetext=True  -> local weText TN (zh/en only)
#   use_llm_tn=True  -> LLM-based TN (all languages, needs .env / API creds)
#   both False       -> no TN frontend built
tts = FireRedTTS3(
    "pretrained_models",
    use_wetext=True,
    use_llm_tn=False,
)

language = None     # Automatic detection if pass None
prompt_text = "<prompt audio text>"
prompt_audio, prompt_audio_sr = torchaudio.load('prompt.wav')
text = "今天天气很好，我们一起去公园散步吧。"

gen_audio, gen_audio_sr = tts.generate(
    language=language,
    prompt_text=prompt_text,
    prompt_audio=prompt_audio,
    prompt_audio_sr=prompt_audio_sr,
    text=text,
    do_tn=True,       # whether to run the frontend TN on this call
)
torchaudio.save("gen.wav", gen_audio.cpu(), gen_audio_sr)

# Supported languages and dialects

# Multilingual languages:
# Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish,
# French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese,
# Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Thai,
# Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

# Multi-dialect:
# ZH_Anhui, ZH_Fujian, ZH_Gansu, ZH_Guizhou, ZH_Hebei, ZH_Henan,
# ZH_Hubei, ZH_Hunan, ZH_Jiangxi, ZH_Liaoning, ZH_Minnan, ZH_Ningxia,
# ZH_Shaanxi, ZH_Shandong, ZH_Shanghai, ZH_Shanxi, ZH_Sichuan,
# ZH_Tianjin, ZH_Wenzhou, ZH_Wu, ZH_Yunnan

Instruct API — Voice Design & Speech Editing

FireRedTTS3-Instruct is a unified instruction-driven model. On top of zero-shot voice cloning, it also supports Voice Design, Semantic Edit and Acoustic Edit through a single entry point: fireredtts3.core.FireRedTTS3Instruct.

import torch
import torchaudio
from fireredtts3.core import FireRedTTS3Instruct

# Init the Instruct model (same text-frontend options as FireRedTTS3)
instruct = FireRedTTS3Instruct(
    "pretrained_models",
    use_wetext=True,
    use_llm_tn=False,   # set True to enable LLM-based TN (all languages)
)

# ---- 1) Voice Design Inference ---------------
# Generate a brand-new voice from a natural-language description only;
# no reference audio is needed. The model first writes a voice-attribute
# plan (returned as gen_text), then renders the audio.
instruction = "一个年轻女性的温柔嗓音，语速稍慢，带一点俏皮。"
text = "今天天气很好，我们一起去公园散步吧。"
gen_audio, gen_audio_sr, gen_text = instruct.generate_voice_design(
    instruction=instruction,
    text=text,
)
torchaudio.save("design.wav", gen_audio.cpu(), gen_audio_sr)
print("Voice plan:", gen_text)

# ---- 2) Semantic Edit ------------------------
# Content-level editing: insertion / deletion / substitution by instruction.
# Returns the edited audio and the model's rewritten text with edit mask.
audio_in, audio_in_sr = torchaudio.load("input.wav")
gen_audio, gen_audio_sr, gen_text = instruct.generate_semantic_edit(
    instruction="Replace 'cats' with 'dogs'.",
    audio_in=audio_in,
    audio_in_sr=audio_in_sr,
)
torchaudio.save("edit_semantic.wav", gen_audio.cpu(), gen_audio_sr)
print("Edited text:", gen_text)

# ---- 3) Acoustic Edit ------------------------
# Acoustic-attribute editing: speed / pitch / volume. The instruction must
# follow the trained templates below (free-form phrasing is not supported):
#   speed   ->  "adjust the speed to X"       X in [0.5, 2.0], step 0.1
#   pitch   ->  "shift the pitch by N step(s)"  N in {-6,...,-1,1,...,+6}
#   volume  ->  "adjust the volume to X"      X in [0.3, 2.0], step 0.1
gen_audio, gen_audio_sr = instruct.generate_acoustic_edit(
    instruction="adjust the speed to 0.5x",
    audio_in=audio_in,
    audio_in_sr=audio_in_sr,
)
torchaudio.save("edit_acoustic.wav", gen_audio.cpu(), gen_audio_sr)

# ---- 4) ICL zero-shot voice cloning using the Instruct model ----
gen_audio, gen_audio_sr = instruct.generate_tts(
    prompt_text="<prompt audio text>",
    prompt_audio=prompt_audio,
    prompt_audio_sr=prompt_audio_sr,
    text="<text to be synthesized>",
)
torchaudio.save("gen_instruct.wav", gen_audio.cpu(), gen_audio_sr)

Performance

Zero-Shot Voice Cloning — Seed-TTS-eval

Best in bold, second best in underline. Evaluation scripts: Seed-TTS-eval.

Multilingual Zero-Shot Cloning — MiniMax-MLS-Test

Best in bold, second best in underline. CER reported for Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, Hindi, Thai, and Greek; WER for the rest.

WER / CER (↓) (click to expand)

Language	Minimax	ElevenLabs	VoxCPM2	FishAudio S2	dots.tts (Pretrain)	FireRedTTS3
Arabic	1.67	1.67	13.05	3.50	37.91	1.75
Cantonese	34.11	51.51	38.58	30.67	37.91	40.32
Chinese	2.25	16.03	1.14	0.73	1.08	0.91
Czech	3.88	2.11	24.13	2.84	5.05	3.17
Dutch	1.14	0.80	0.91	0.99	1.20	1.15
English	2.16	2.34	2.29	1.62	1.06	2.12
Finnish	4.67	2.96	2.63	3.33	3.44	3.10
French	4.10	5.22	4.53	3.05	3.82	5.28
German	1.91	0.57	0.68	0.55	1.03	0.69
Greek	2.02	0.99	2.84	5.74	2.97	1.24
Hindi	6.96	5.83	19.70	14.64	14.32	7.02
Indonesian	1.24	1.06	1.08	1.46	2.71	1.42
Italian	1.54	1.74	1.56	1.27	3.16	2.28
Japanese	3.52	10.65	4.63	2.76	7.16	3.60
Korean	1.75	1.87	1.96	1.18	5.30	2.42
Polish	1.42	0.77	1.14	1.26	2.72	1.22
Portuguese	1.88	1.33	1.94	1.14	1.64	1.79
Romanian	2.88	1.35	21.58	10.74	3.36	1.93
Russian	4.28	3.88	3.63	2.40	3.64	3.28
Spanish	1.03	1.08	1.44	0.91	0.96	1.21
Thai	2.70	73.94	2.96	4.23	7.45	1.87
Turkish	1.52	0.70	0.82	0.87	5.45	0.92
Ukrainian	1.08	1.00	6.32	2.30	1.61	0.55
Vietnamese	0.88	73.42	3.31	7.41	3.85	0.86
Average	3.77	10.95	6.79	4.40	6.60	3.75

SIM (↑) (click to expand)

Language	Minimax	ElevenLabs	VoxCPM2	FishAudio S2	dots.tts (Pretrain)	FireRedTTS3
Arabic	73.6	70.6	79.1	75.0	77.5	78.9
Cantonese	77.8	67.0	83.5	80.5	84.7	83.9
Chinese	78.0	67.7	82.5	81.6	82.3	84.2
Czech	79.6	68.5	78.3	79.8	83.8	86.1
Dutch	73.8	68.0	80.8	73.0	81.4	84.3
English	75.6	61.3	85.4	79.7	86.9	86.8
Finnish	83.5	75.9	89.0	81.9	88.0	89.9
French	62.8	53.5	73.5	69.8	78.2	81.0
German	73.3	61.4	80.3	76.7	79.5	83.3
Greek	82.6	73.3	86.0	79.5	87.6	89.3
Hindi	81.8	73.0	85.6	82.1	84.5	87.2
Indonesian	72.9	66.0	80.0	76.3	80.8	83.3
Italian	69.9	57.9	78.0	74.7	84.5	83.6
Japanese	77.6	73.8	82.8	79.6	83.1	82.8
Korean	77.6	70.0	83.3	81.7	84.3	86.6
Polish	80.2	72.9	88.4	81.9	87.3	89.8
Portuguese	80.5	71.1	83.7	78.1	83.1	86.3
Romanian	80.9	69.9	79.7	73.3	86.2	86.2
Russian	76.1	67.6	81.1	79.0	83.0	84.7
Spanish	76.2	61.5	83.1	77.6	83.9	86.3
Thai	80.0	58.8	84.0	78.6	83.8	83.3
Turkish	77.9	59.6	87.1	83.5	87.4	86.6
Ukrainian	73.0	64.7	79.8	74.7	80.5	79.8
Vietnamese	74.3	36.9	80.6	74.0	80.7	81.3
Average	76.6	65.5	82.3	78.0	83.5	84.8

Instruct TTS

Since Gemini-2.5-pro-preview is inaccessible, Gemini-2.5-pro is used to score all systems.

Speech Editing

Semantic Editing (click to expand)

Task	Setting	Metric	Ming-UniAudio-Edit zh | en	FireRedTTS3-Instruct zh | en
Deletion	basic	WER (%)↓	11.89 | 14.85	10.51 | 14.46
		SIM↑	0.78 | 0.76	0.78 | 0.79
		ACC (%)↑	100.00 | 82.22	100.00 | 97.78
		no-edit WER (%)↓	11.49 | 24.26	10.30 | 23.97
	open	WER (%)↓	22.92 | 27.60	16.31 | 18.62
		SIM↑	0.81 | 0.74	0.81 | 0.78
		ACC (%)↑	82.92 | 85.00	89.32 | 89.50
		no-edit WER (%)↓	17.50 | 35.21	11.69 | 27.08
Insertion	basic	WER (%)↓	3.42 | 6.63	3.62 | 6.84
		SIM↑	0.83 | 0.79	0.83 | 0.83
		ACC (%)↑	80.00 | 71.43	81.18 | 76.40
		no-edit WER (%)↓	3.52 | 17.70	3.80 | 18.23
	open	WER (%)↓	3.89 | 7.59	4.79 | 9.05
		SIM↑	0.83 | 0.79	0.84 | 0.83
		ACC (%)↑	79.31 | 62.31	79.31 | 65.83
		no-edit WER (%)↓	4.10 | 18.84	5.22 | 20.22
Substitution	basic	WER (%)↓	4.52 | 8.99	2.92 | 5.63
		SIM↑	0.82 | 0.78	0.83 | 0.80
		ACC (%)↑	78.62 | 59.78	87.42 | 75.42
		no-edit WER (%)↓	4.63 | 19.28	3.19 | 17.05
	open	WER (%)↓	4.56 | 7.64	3.52 | 6.54
		SIM↑	0.83 | 0.77	0.83 | 0.80
		ACC (%)↑	76.62 | 65.62	86.15 | 71.48
		no-edit WER (%)↓	4.75 | 18.39	3.85 | 18.42
Average	basic+open	WER (%)↓	8.53 | 12.22	6.97 | 10.22
		SIM↑	0.82 | 0.77	0.82 | 0.80
		ACC (%)↑	82.91 | 71.06	87.27 | 78.91
		no-edit WER (%)↓	7.67 | 22.28	6.49 | 20.90

Acoustic Editing (click to expand)

Task	Metric	Ming-UniAudio-Edit ZH | EN	FireRedTTS3-Instruct ZH | EN
Speed Alteration	WER(%)↓	5.88 | 17.53	2.27 | 4.75
	SIM↑	0.66 | 0.57	0.80 | 0.71
	RDE(%)↓	6.36 | 5.92	4.35 | 4.29
Pitch Alteration	WER(%)↓	7.45 | 13.37	2.34 | 2.94
	SIM↑	0.36 | 0.24	0.51 | 0.44
Volume Alteration	WER(%)↓	1.71 | 1.35	1.69 | 1.26
	SIM↑	0.86 | 0.80	0.92 | 0.90
	RAE(%)↓	14.9 | 11.7	3.58 | 4.44

Usage Disclaimer

• The project incorporates zero-shot voice cloning functionality; Please note that this capability is intended solely for academic research purposes.
• DO NOT use this model for ANY illegal activities❗️❗️
• The developers assume no liability for any misuse of this model.
• If you identify any instances of abuse, misuse, or fraudulent activities related to this project, please report them to our team immediately.

Citation

@article{fireredtts3,
  title   = {FireRedTTS3: Unified Speech Generation and Editing with Semantically Enriched Speech Representations},
  author  = {FireRed Team},
  journal = {arXiv preprint},
  year    = {2026},
}

Acknowledgements

• Qwen3 and Qwen2-Audio for the language model and audio understanding foundations
• DiTAR for the patch-level diffusion autoregressive formulation
• X-Codec for the discriminator design used in RedAE training
• CAM++ for speaker embedding extraction
• fastText for automatic language identification
• WeTextProcessing (wetext) for the Chinese / English text normalization front-end

License

Released under the Apache-2.0 license.