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AI · May 10, 2025

Voila

Open-source AI for real-time, expressive voice role-play

Voila launched on May 10, 2025 with 141 votes, #289 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

oila is an open-source voice-language model family by Maitrix.org & labs for low-latency, emotionally rich AI voice role-play, ASR & TTS.

Voila: Voice-Language Foundation Models for Real-Time Autonomous Interaction and Voice Role-Play

A voice AI agent that blends seamlessly into daily life would interact with humans in an autonomous, real-time, and emotionally expressive manner. Rather than merely reacting to commands, it would continuously listen, reason, and respond proactively, fostering fluid, dynamic, and emotionally resonant interactions. We introduce Voila, a family of large voice-language foundation models that make a step towards this vision. Voila moves beyond traditional pipeline systems by adopting a new end-to-end architecture that enables full-duplex, low-latency conversations while preserving rich vocal nuances such as tone, rhythm, and emotion. It achieves a response latency of just 195 milliseconds,…from voila.maitrix.org

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