★FireRedTTS-2: A Complete Guide to Long-Form Conversational Speech Generation★ Introduction Speech technology has evolved rapidly in recent years. Traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems work well for single-speaker narration, such as video dubbing or automated announcements. However, as podcasts, chatbots, and real-time dialogue systems grow in popularity, the limitations of older TTS solutions become clear. These limitations include: 🍄 The need for complete dialogue scripts before synthesis. 🍄 Single mixed audio tracks that combine all voices without separation. 🍄 Instability in long-form speech generation. 🍄 Poor handling of speaker changes and emotional context. FireRedTTS-2 addresses these challenges. It is a long-form, streaming …