{"rewrite":{"id":"r_f4907d3be3ef3037bcaefc83","clusterId":"c_d45a8551c39c59f38997ad26","slug":"zyphra-releases-zonos2-voice-clone-ai-with-japanese-support","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Zyphra Releases ZONOS2 Voice Clone AI With Japanese Support","summary":"Zyphra announced ZONOS2, a real-time voice synthesis AI capable of cloning a person's voice from reference audio. The model supports Japanese as a Tier 1 language alongside English and Chinese, and is released as an open model under the Apache License 2.0. Demo audio includes President Donald Trump speaking about Evangelion characters.","whyItMatters":"ZONOS2 treats Japanese as a top-tier language from launch, a rare priority for a Western-developed voice AI, and its open release could accelerate Japanese-language voice cloning applications.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eZyphra announced ZONOS2 on June 12, 2026, a voice synthesis AI that clones a person\u0026#39;s voice from a short audio sample and reads arbitrary text in real time. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 8 billion total parameters and 900 million active parameters, achieving four times the real-time throughput of its predecessor Zonos-v0.1. Training data grew from 600,000 hours to over 2 million hours, which Zyphra says improves robustness against noise and atypical speech patterns.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapanese is positioned as a Tier 1 language alongside English and Chinese, with performance gains attributed to treating text input as raw UTF-8 data. Zyphra released demo audio of President Donald Trump speaking about Evangelion\u0026#39;s Shinji Ikari and Gendo Ikari, and former President Barack Obama speaking about a Gundam development plan. The model is available on Hugging Face under the Apache License 2.0 and on Zyphra Cloud using AMD AI chips.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Zyphra's open release of ZONOS2 under Apache 2.0 means anyone can build on the voice cloning tech. The Trump-Evangelion demo is a provocation: the model handles cross-lingual character voice without retraining.","twitterPost":"ZONOS2's open license lets anyone clone voices. The Trump-Evangelion demo shows cross-lingual character synthesis works.","threadsPost":"Zyphra released ZONOS2 as an open model under Apache 2.0. The demo with Donald Trump's voice talking about Evangelion characters is not a joke: it shows the model can do cross-lingual voice cloning for anime characters without custom training. The open license means anyone can run this locally.","newsletterBlurb":"Zyphra released ZONOS2, a real-time voice synthesis AI that clones a person's voice from reference audio. Japanese is treated as a Tier 1 language alongside English and Chinese. The model is open under Apache License 2.0.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"GIGAZINE\",\"url\":\"https://gigazine.net/news/20260615-tts-zonos2-amd-zyphra/\",\"title\":\"Japanese-Language Voice Clone AI \\\"ZONOS2\\\" Appears, with Demo of Having President Trump Speak About Evangelion\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4293,"outputTokens":610,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1781499482,"createdAt":"2026-06-15T04:46:20.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-06-15T04:49:57.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-15T04:49:57.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_d45a8551c39c59f38997ad26","canonicalTitle":"日本語対応の音声クローンAI「ZONOS2」が登場、トランプ大統領の声でエヴァンゲリオンについて語らせるデモもあり","representativeArticleId":"a_18df5a21c6882d52e9d823d9","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[\"Evangelion\"],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-06-15T04:03:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-06-15T04:03:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-15T04:49:57.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"GIGAZINE","url":"https://gigazine.net/news/20260615-tts-zonos2-amd-zyphra/","title":"日本語対応の音声クローンAI「ZONOS2」が登場、トランプ大統領の声でエヴァンゲリオンについて語らせるデモもあり"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":["Evangelion"],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["Zyphra announced ZONOS2 on June 12, 2026, a voice synthesis AI that clones a person's voice from a short audio sample and reads arbitrary text in real time.","The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 8 billion total parameters and 900 million active parameters, achieving four times the real-time throughput of its predecessor Zonos-v0.1.","Japanese is positioned as a Tier 1 language alongside English and Chinese, with performance gains attributed to treating text input as raw UTF-8 data.","Zyphra released demo audio of President Donald Trump speaking about Evangelion's Shinji Ikari and Gendo Ikari, and former President Barack Obama speaking about a Gundam development plan.","The model is available on Hugging Face under the Apache License 2.0 and on Zyphra Cloud using AMD AI chips."]}