https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/projects/ema-lightning/ Material changes in AI models, agents, engineering and infrastructure, with primary sources and recommendations. en Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:56:00 GMT https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/events/ev-20261001-10/ ev-20261001-10-published Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:04:39 GMT New TRIAL <p>EMA Lightning releases Apache 2.0 weights and code for an 8.6M-parameter Turkish text-to-speech stack with streaming, CPU support and a shared GPU scheduler. The model card reports 0.92% WER on Freya-TR-Eval, 3.86 ms to first audio and 440x real-time generation on an RTX 4090. Training used about 1,000 hours of private single-speaker audio.</p><p>Recommendation: TRIAL</p><p>Sources: <a href="https://huggingface.co/canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning">EMA Lightning model card</a> · <a href="https://github.com/canberk7/ema-lightning">canberk7/ema-lightning</a></p>