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Meta / Text-Audiobox

Text-AB-Stereo 3B · dialogue

Joint two-speaker dialogue synthesis with learned turn-taking, overlap and back-channel behavior.

restrictedClosed weightsSpeech generation
Official documentation (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 13 Oct 2026
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Maximum outputNot collectedAwaiting source review
Input billingNot collectedMeta · research reference
Output billingNot collectedNo inferred price

Specifications

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Context / input limit
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Reasoning
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Structured output
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Streaming
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Batch processing
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Fine-tuning
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Release date
2026-09-03Source for Release date (opens in a new tab)

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Parameters
3BSource for Parameters (opens in a new tab)

Reported model size; a complete parameter total including every external encoder and evaluator is not inferred.

Architecture
Flow-matching diffusion transformer with mT5 text cross-attention and DAC-VAE audio latentsSource for Architecture (opens in a new tab)
Languages
EnglishSource for Languages (opens in a new tab)

Dialogue adaptation and evaluation use English recordings. The bilingual mono backbone does not establish tested bilingual dialogue support.

Context caching
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No model-specific inference service or discounted prompt-cache contract is established for these research weights.

Audio channels
Two channels, one speaker per channel, jointly modeledSource for Audio channels (opens in a new tab)
acousticRepresentation
128-dimensional DAC-VAE latents at 25 HzSource for acousticRepresentation (opens in a new tab)

Latent dimensions and frame rate are not API token limits or text-embedding dimensions.

textConditioning
Raw text through mT5 cross-attention, with language-ID embeddings; no forced alignment or explicit duration predictorSource for textConditioning (opens in a new tab)
Published research configuration
Main dialogue SFT model initialized from pretrained Text-AB-MonoSource for Published research configuration (opens in a new tab)
adaptationData
28,000 hours of English two-channel conversationsSource for adaptationData (opens in a new tab)
channelInitialization
Duplicate mono input/output projections for two channels; divide input weights by twoSource for channelInitialization (opens in a new tab)
Output duration
About one minute one-shot; long-form generation demonstrated beyond ten minutes using multi-diffusionSource for Output duration (opens in a new tab)

Longer generation is an algorithmic capability, not an unlimited hosted service entitlement.

longFormGeneration
Overlapping chunk flows merged at each ODE step; default 30-second chunks with 20-second overlapsSource for longFormGeneration (opens in a new tab)
voiceConsistency
Long-form stereo generation requires both speaker identities in the prompt; otherwise generate an initial two-speaker chunk firstSource for voiceConsistency (opens in a new tab)
sampleSelection
Dialogue evaluation: 32 ODE steps, four candidates; keep speaker similarity at least 75% of the maximum, then minimize WERSource for sampleSelection (opens in a new tab)

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Meta · research reference

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Access
Paper describes internal speech-generation models. No public model selector, original weight download or endpoint-specific tariff is supplied.
Regions
Research deployment only; public availability and residency are not established

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Data & enterprise terms

The cited research release does not supply a current production processing/retention agreement. Research access or an expired demonstration is not a production API entitlement.

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Caching

Caching can reuse earlier input processing. Availability, lifetime and billing depend on the endpoint. A cache hit still generates a new response.

01 / INITIAL INPUTProcess & retain

The system processes eligible input and retains reusable state.

02 / LATER REQUESTCheck available state

Reuse depends on matching input, session state and the cache policy.

03 / CACHE HITReuse & generate

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What the measurements say

Short-form dialogue human-likeness

Meta research authors · provider-reported
4.53MOS / 5

Table 4, held-out conversations averaging about 30 seconds; real recordings score 4.62 in the same evaluation. Provider-run human evaluation.

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Long-form dialogue human-likeness

Meta research authors · provider-reported
3.86MOS / 5

Table 4, synthetic longer scripts versus the previous internal system’s 3.00. Raters review sampled one-minute segments; not the same protocol as the short-form comparison.

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Latency and throughput depend on the host, request size, reasoning settings and load. There is no measured speed or global usage figure in this record.

The record behind the model

Why it is included

Meta’s September 2026 paper and publication describe internally trained Text-AB systems and research evaluations, but supply no original checkpoint download, public API selector or production access contract. The paper’s CC-BY license covers the publication, not a released model-weight artifact. Open mT5, emotion recognizers and other evaluation components do not establish release of Text-AB weights.

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Lifecycle dates

Text-Audiobox research paper disclosure3 Sept 2026Source (opens in a new tab)

Sources reviewed