CN-NewsTTS Bench includes Volcengine TTS results - metadata confirmation invited

[Jayden-X-L]

What would you like to be added?

Add CN-NewsTTS Bench metadata confirmation / official submission tracking for the Volcengine TTS entry.

Current public entry:

• model_id: volcengine_tts
• model name: seed-tts-2.0-standard
• voice: default Chinese voice

Repository:
https://github.com/Jayden-X-L/cn-news-tts-bench

Submission guide:
https://github.com/Jayden-X-L/cn-news-tts-bench/blob/main/SUBMIT.md

Why is this needed?

Hi Volcengine / BytePlus team,

I am Shijun Luo from NetEase Cloud Music, where I work on AI news briefing / AI news podcast generation. In our workflow, we use and evaluate major TTS systems to generate spoken news and information podcast content.

During this work, we found that many current TTS systems still struggle with Chinese news-style text, especially compact expressions that frequently appear in real news. These errors are not just voice-quality issues; they can change the information heard by listeners.

For example:

• 苏-27 may be read as "苏负二十七" instead of the intended aircraft model name.
• 96-91 may be read as a numeric range instead of a sports score.
• 620N·m may be read letter by letter or as symbol fragments instead of a torque unit.
• 3.5% may be read as "三点五百分号" or confused with percentage points.
• AI / CEO may be expanded into "人工智能" / "首席执行官" when the original abbreviation should be preserved.

This motivated us to release CN-NewsTTS Bench, a raw-input Chinese news TTS benchmark focused on real-world news reading cases such as dates, numbers, units, named entities, mixed-script text, and text normalization.

We would like to invite the Volcengine / BytePlus team to:

1. Confirm or correct the public model metadata.
2. Submit an official result if the current configuration is not representative.
3. Provide a system/model card if available.

For questions or corrections, feel free to contact me:
xiaobiluo@gmail.com

Thanks!

Best,
Shijun Luo