Voxtral TTS Voice Cloning Unlocked — Community Releases Missing Codec Encoder Weights

r/LocalLLaMA / GitHub·low signal

Mistral's open-source Voxtral TTS model shipped without the codec encoder weights needed for voice cloning via ref_audio passthrough. A community contributor reverse-engineered and released the missing weights on GitHub (69 upvotes, 11 comments on r/LocalLLaMA). This unlocks the full voice cloning capability that was architecturally present but gated in the official release, making Voxtral competitive with proprietary cloning services.