ICE-012 Audio converts text into speech and lets you shape the voice without recording anything. You choose the language by name or code, set male or female, and add plain-word modifiers like "elderly, low pitch" or "teenager, british accent". Speed runs from half to double pace, and output streams as it is generated, so long passages start playing before they finish rendering. For a specific voice, you pass a reference WAV and optionally its transcript, and the model clones that speaker for new text.
The language list is unusually wide: 590 names, including regional Arabic dialects such as Egyptian, Saudi, Moroccan, and Levantine variants, which mainstream TTS models usually flatten into one generic Arabic. The author credits a new acoustic adapter that conditions the codec embeddings before the main network, which is the technical reason a model this size can cover so much ground. The weights are Apache 2.0.