# XTTS-v2 vs ElevenLabs: 6-Second Clones & 2026 Scorecard

Dylan Cooper · August 24, 2026

> XTTS-v2 vs ElevenLabs: 6-Second Clones & 2026 Scorecard. Six seconds of clean audio is all XTTS-v2 asks: hand it a short reference cl...

| Takeaway | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| Six-second cloning ships without commercial rights | XTTS-v2 converts 6 seconds of reference audio into speech under a non-commercial license — the same wall ElevenLabs builds around its $0 free tier, where cloned audio is explicitly barred from YouTube videos, podcasts, courses, and products. |
| A commercial license has a priced floor, and the trackers disagree on it | diyai.io's table verified 8 June 2026 puts Starter at $6/month with instant voice cloning plus a commercial license; TextToLab's May 2026 snapshot lists the same tier at $5/month, an effective $0.17 per 1,000 characters. |
| On measured accuracy, the maintained model leads | ElevenLabs posts a 2.83% word error rate against Microsoft Azure's 3.18% on Cartesia's comparison page — the kind of benchmark movement a frozen open checkpoint cannot match. |
| Input acoustics became a billable line item | Clone fidelity hinges on how clean the reference clip is, and ElevenLabs sells the cleanup directly: Voice Isolator and Voice Changer each run $0.12 per minute through the API, per Puter's June 2026 catalog. |

Six seconds of clean audio is all XTTS-v2 asks: hand it a short reference clip and it speaks with convincing fluency. The catch is printed in the license file, not the spec sheet — the model's non-commercial terms mean not one generated second can legally earn you money. Input convenience, in other words, is free; commerce is not.

ElevenLabs runs a similar playbook with a paywall at the exit. Its $0 free tier includes three instant-clone slots and audio quality identical to paid plans, yet the terms explicitly prohibit monetization. The commercial gate opens at Starter — $6/month on diyai.io's table verified 8 June 2026, $5/month on TextToLab's May 2026 snapshot, a discrepancy worth checking before checkout — and widens at $22/month, where professional voice cloning unlocks.

The 2026 scorecard therefore turns on three constraints the six-second headline ignores: the license file, model drift, and input acoustics. Coqui's collapse left XTTS-v2's weights frozen, while ElevenLabs keeps compounding benchmark gains — a 2.83% word error rate against Microsoft Azure's 3.18% on Cartesia's comparison page. And because clone fidelity tracks the cleanliness of those six seconds, the subscription even sells the remedy: Voice Isolator at $0.12 per minute. On all three counts, the open model cedes ground.

![XTTS-v2 vs ElevenLabs](https://static.mm-ais.com/article-images-ai/xtts-v2-vs-elevenlabs-6-second-clones-20-ai-b03410e5.jpg)

## Anatomy of a 6-Second Clone

Every XTTS-v2 clone you have ever heard was steered by a single object: a fixed-length speaker embedding. Per the architecture documented on the Coqui/Hugging Face model card, a speaker encoder compresses your reference clip into that fixed-length vector, a GPT-style autoregressive transformer conditioned on it predicts a stream of discrete neural-codec audio tokens, and a HiFi-GAN vocoder converts those tokens back into waveform. No fine-tuning stage exists anywhere in that chain — the weights never move, so "zero-shot" is literal. Identity lives entirely in the conditioning vector, and that vector is computed fresh at every inference.

Freshness cuts both ways. Because nothing about your voice persists between runs, XTTS-v2 is stateless: the audio never leaves your machine, which is exactly what makes it the right tool for private, strictly non-commercial drafts. But because the embedding is recomputed from whatever clip you hand it, two takes of the same script produce two different vectors — and audibly different renders. Take-to-take variance is the native failure mode, and it scales with reference hygiene: room noise and reverb leak directly into the embedding.

ElevenLabs Instant Voice Cloning inverts the design. Uploads — one minute minimum, with up to 3 hours accepted for Professional Cloning — are processed server-side into a persistent, reusable voice profile stored in their cloud, not recomputed per request. The profile is frozen, so render-to-render consistency comes free; the costs are that the artifact is cloud-bound and the only correction path is re-uploading samples. You cannot inspect or edit the underlying representation.

Both systems descend from the same ancestor: Microsoft's 2023 VALL-E paper, which established the codec-LM recipe — transformers predicting discrete audio-codec tokens. That lineage is precisely why either system can condition on seconds-to-minutes of audio where pre-VALL-E systems demanded hours of studio recordings. Once identity became a conditioning problem rather than a training problem, the reference clip stopped being training data and became a prompt.

That reframing kills the folk belief that reference length is the quality dial. Published ablations show speaker-similarity gains saturate after only a short reference window; beyond that, microphone technique and room noise dominate. ElevenLabs' 60-second ask is therefore not a fidelity multiplier — it is a curation floor for distilling one stable profile. XTTS-v2's 6 seconds suffice because the encoder needs only one clean pass to fix identity.

The shipped capability sets diverge more than the marketing suggests. According to the Coqui/Hugging Face model card, XTTS-v2 supports cross-lingual transfer — a voice recorded in English can be rendered speaking German, French, or Hindi with no new reference data, accent leakage included in the bargain. According to MakerStack's ElevenLabs vs HeyGen 2026 review, ElevenLabs supports 29 languages, and its cloning needs minimal audio while producing voices that sound genuinely human. Responsiveness follows the same logic: according to Cartesia's comparison page, ElevenLabs posted a time-to-first-audio of 135 ms at the 90th percentile across 100 measurements, ahead of Azure's slightly higher figure — a stricter yardstick than a median-latency headline, and cheap precisely because the profile is precomputed before the request arrives.

For anything that earns money or reaches the public, the frozen-profile stack wins on every axis that survives production: consistency, language coverage, measured responsiveness, and cleared commercial rights. Run XTTS-v2 locally only when the audio stays private and non-commercial — or when you want the one control ElevenLabs denies you: swapping reference takes per render.

| Attribute | XTTS-v2 (local) | ElevenLabs Instant Voice Cloning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reference handling | Fresh 6-second clip per inference | One-time upload, 1-minute minimum; up to 3 hours for Professional Cloning |
| Identity storage | Stateless fixed-length embedding, recomputed each run | Persistent cloud voice profile |
| Languages shipped | Cross-lingual transfer (Coqui/HF model card) | 29 (MakerStack, 2026) |
| Measured responsiveness | Bound by your hardware | 135 ms time-to-first-audio at p90, 100 measurements (Cartesia page) |
| Primary failure mode | Take-to-take variance from noisy references | Stale profile until re-upload |
| Correction path | Swap the clip, rerun | Re-upload curated samples |
| Wins for | Private, non-commercial drafts | Monetized or public output |

![Anatomy of a 6-Second Clone — XTTS-v2 vs ElevenLabs](https://static.mm-ais.com/article-images-ai/xtts-v2-vs-elevenlabs-6-second-clones-20-ai-fc4840ec.jpg)

## The Receipts

Follow the paperwork, not the waveform: every receipt below — peer review, crowd-scale Elo, vendor latency sheets, a corporate death notice, a federal ruling — points one direction. XTTS-v2 won the technical argument, then stopped shipping; ElevenLabs converted a $180 million war chest into a maintenance lead you can hear.

Start with the receipt that favors Coqui. According to Casanova et al.'s XTTS paper at ICASSP, XTTS-v2 approached ground-truth naturalness in English MOS testing and beat YourTTS on cross-lingual speaker similarity — the pair of results that made six-second cloning credible in the first place. Before citing this in any client deliverable, pull the exact MOS and similarity values from the paper's tables yourself; the durable claim is qualitative, and it holds: peer review accepted near-human English synthesized from a short reference clip.

The crowd-scale receipt cuts the other way. According to the TTS Arena Elo leaderboard on Hugging Face, ElevenLabs engines held the #1 or near-#1 position against more than twenty open and closed competitors — the largest continuous head-to-head perceptual dataset TTS has ever accumulated. One honesty check keeps this current: per InkSlop's tracking, Kokoro, Hexgrad's 82-million-parameter Apache 2.0 model that runs on CPU alone, seized the top Elo slot in January 2026. But Kokoro ships fixed voices, not zero-shot cloning, so the open-source coup changes nothing about which tool you clone with.

On speed, both vendors disclosed their own figures: ElevenLabs puts Flash v2.5 at approximately 75 milliseconds of latency, while Coqui's own XTTS-v2 demonstration ran in real time on a single consumer GPU. Both clear every interactive threshold that matters, so latency was never the real differentiator — what the gap signals is a maintained inference stack versus a frozen checkpoint.

The corporate receipt predicts the rest. Coqui announced its shutdown, freezing XTTS-v2's weights on Hugging Face under the non-commercial CPML with no patches issued since. ElevenLabs, per TechCrunch, closed a $180 million Series C at a $3.3 billion valuation on January 30, 2025, a16z-led — and per Adithya Giridharan's May 11, 2026 Medium post, crossed $500 million in annual recurring revenue on May 5, 2026, up from roughly $350 million at the end of 2025: $150 million net-new in about sixteen weeks. Funding asymmetry compounds into update-cadence asymmetry, and a frozen model drifts one unpatched quarter at a time.

Two receipts bind both tools equally, and they set the floor. According to the FCC's declaratory ruling, AI-cloned voices deployed in robocalls are unlawful under the TCPA — the first hard US legal line touching either engine, regardless of which one generated the audio. Meanwhile, a PLOS ONE listening study found lay listeners detected cloned speech at rates barely above chance. Human ears wave nearly any clone through; the law, not the listener, is the binding constraint.

| Evidence tier | Named receipt | Figure / date | Advantage |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Peer review | Casanova et al., ICASSP | Near ground-truth English MOS; beats YourTTS cross-lingually | XTTS-v2 |
| Crowd scale | TTS Arena Elo, Hugging Face | ElevenLabs at/near #1 vs 20+ engines | ElevenLabs |
| Latency | Vendor disclosures | Flash v2.5 approx. 75 ms vs Coqui's local demo, one consumer GPU | ElevenLabs |
| Corporate | Coqui shutdown; TechCrunch, Jan 30, 2025 | Frozen CPML weights vs $180M raise at $3.3B | ElevenLabs |
| Regulatory | FCC declaratory ruling | AI-cloned robocall voices unlawful under TCPA | Neither — equal exposure |
| Perception | PLOS ONE listening study | Lay detection barely above chance | Neither — both pass |

The receipt nobody publishes is reference-audio length, because it barely matters: published ablations show speaker-similarity gains saturate after a brief reference window, past which microphone technique and room noise dominate the residual error. That retires the 6-versus-60-second debate as a purchasing criterion — the actual trade is a trivial fidelity delta against license terms, latency headroom, and patch cadence. Run the receipts backward: anything that earns money or reaches the public goes to ElevenLabs Instant Voice Cloning; XTTS-v2 stays local for private, strictly non-commercial drafts — and file the FCC ruling in your compliance notes before you press record.

![The Receipts — XTTS-v2 vs ElevenLabs](https://static.mm-ais.com/article-images-pixabay/xtts-v2-vs-elevenlabs-6-second-clones-20-a0becadc.jpg)

## The 2026 Scorecard

Four rows to XTTS-v2, three to ElevenLabs — and the three ElevenLabs takes are the only ones a lawyer, a listener, or a platform moderator will ever notice. Score the engines side by side and neither sweeps the board, which means the buying decision is not a benchmark result; it is a weighting choice. Every ElevenLabs figure below traces to one source: according to ElevenLabs Software Pricing & Plans 2026, the tiers run Free $0, Starter $6, Creator $22, Pro $99, Scale $299, and Business $990 per month.

| Row | XTTS-v2 (local) | ElevenLabs IVC | Winner |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reference floor | 6 seconds | 60 seconds | XTTS-v2 |
| Commercial rights | CPML forbids them | Permitted on paid tiers | ElevenLabs |
| Entry cost | $0 plus your own GPU | $6/month Starter | XTTS-v2 |
| Cost at 100k characters/month | Roughly $1–2 in electricity | $22 Creator tier | XTTS-v2 |
| Live latency | Bound by your hardware | 75 ms | ElevenLabs |
| Cloned-voice languages | Cross-lingual transfer | 32 | ElevenLabs |
| Data control | Fully local | Cloud-only | XTTS-v2 |

Read the winner column precisely: XTTS-v2 takes the reference floor, both cost rows, and privacy; ElevenLabs takes commercial rights, latency, and language coverage. Two footnotes before you weight those rows. First, the language gap is narrower than it looks — according to murf.ai's April 2026 comparison, ElevenLabs' flagship v3 engine handles 70+ languages, but the 32-language ceiling is what governs cloned profiles. Second, "permitted" starts at the paid tiers: per the ElevenLabs Review 2026, commercial rights are locked behind paid plans, which is why that review frames the free tier as a trap.

Treat the reference-floor row with suspicion, because buyers misread it as the quality dial. It is not: as the earlier breakdown of where the six-second story breaks showed, speaker-similarity gains saturate after a short reference window, and past that knee microphone technique and room noise dominate. XTTS-v2's 6-second floor is a convenience win, not a fidelity win, and ElevenLabs' 60-second demand buys verified headroom, not proportionally better clones.

When rows conflict, impose the hierarchy the table implies: legality beats latency beats similarity beats cost. The mechanism is asymmetric risk. A CPML breach or a platform takedown voids every technical advantage simultaneously — the free clone you cannot legally ship earns exactly zero, while a slower clone still ships. That asymmetry is why a 4–3 row count favoring XTTS-v2 does not make XTTS-v2 the default answer.

So the winner is conditional, and the condition is where the audio goes. ElevenLabs Instant Voice Cloning for any output that earns money or reaches the public; XTTS-v2 locally only when the audio stays private and strictly non-commercial. Everything else on this card is downstream of that fork.

Row eight never appears on either vendor's pricing page:

| Hidden term | XTTS-v2 | ElevenLabs IVC | Who wins |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Model-freeze guarantee | None offered | None offered | Neither |
| Voice portability | Weights are yours forever — export and run offline | Profiles cannot leave the cloud | XTTS-v2 |

Portability is the sleeper term: the corporate death notice documented in the receipts section is the standing argument for owning your weights, and an exported XTTS-v2 checkpoint runs on air-gapped hardware indefinitely. Freeze guarantees favor nobody — either vendor can push an update that drifts your voice overnight. The tactic that hedges both: record 60 clean seconds even for local prototypes. Not because longer audio sounds better — saturation says otherwise — but because the capture costs nothing and keeps the paid path open the day the project earns its first dollar.

![The 2026 Scorecard — XTTS-v2 vs ElevenLabs](https://static.mm-ais.com/article-images-pixabay/xtts-v2-vs-elevenlabs-6-second-clones-20-4f2a532f.jpg)

## What the Data Doesn't Tell You

None of the numbers above can rank these two engines on raw fidelity for *your* voice — and that blind spot is exactly why the license, not the leaderboard, has to carry the decision. Speaker-similarity scores in the zero-shot TTS literature are cosine similarities between speaker-verification embeddings, computed on clean, single-speaker studio corpora such as LibriSpeech and VCTK. According to the evaluation protocols laid out in the XTTS and YourTTS papers, the metric compares a clone against ground-truth utterances of the same speaker recorded in the same session. Feed it a phone-call capture made in a reverberant kitchen and the metric's core assumption — that timbre dominates perception — quietly fails.

Human listening diverges further. Mean-opinion scores gathered under ITU-T P.808 crowdsourcing conditions weight naturalness and prosody heavily; a clone can top a similarity metric while losing ears on breath placement and emphasis. Crowd-scale Elo rankings measure preference for whatever audio gets submitted — mostly generic synthesis, rarely adversarial clone-versus-clone matchups. The legal evidence is softer still: as of mid-2026, the Coqui Public Model License's non-commercial clause has never been tested in court, and with Coqui dissolved, no author remains to clarify it. ElevenLabs' terms are living documents too — its voice-consent framework has been revised more than once — so archive the exact terms the day you commit.

Variance across cases is the second blind spot. Short or noisy references pull zero-shot models toward the training-set mean: accented English, breathy phonation, older speakers, and wide emotional range all widen the error bars. Cross-lingual transfer degrades unevenly, fastest on tonal languages. And the latency figure tallied earlier is a server-side best case on a warm connection; real deployments add network jitter, streaming buffers, and cold-start warmup before anything reaches a listener.

One dial buyers obsess over barely moves the needle: reference length. Published ablations, including the scaling curves Coqui shipped with the XTTS model card, show speaker-similarity gains flattening out after a short reference window; beyond that, microphone technique and room noise dominate the residual error. Six seconds versus sixty is a rounding error next to a bad room — record sixty quiet seconds inside a closet of hanging clothes and you've bought more fidelity than any additional audio ever will.

The decision rule bends in three places, none of them fatal. Private, offline use — an accessibility build for a relative, a research prototype on an air-gapped machine — never triggers the commercial clause, and keeping biometric voice data off a third-party API is its own defensible priority. At audiobook scale, per-character API pricing can outrun amortized GPU time; compare both rate cards before assuming hosting is cheaper. And consent travels separately from licensing: vendor commercial rights clear the platform, not you. Right-of-publicity exposure — Tennessee's ELVIS Act is the template other legislatures keep copying — attaches to whoever cloned the voice, whichever engine rendered it.

| Your situation | What the data can't tell you | Safer call | Why |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Clean studio reference, English narration | Little — benchmarks transfer directly | ElevenLabs IVC | Default rule holds; similarity and rights both favor it |
| Phone-call or Zoom reference, noisy room | How far similarity falls off-corpus | ElevenLabs IVC, auditioned first | Metric assumptions break on compressed, reverberant input |
| Air-gapped accessibility or research build | Nothing — audio never ships | XTTS-v2 locally | Non-commercial clause never triggers on private use |
| Audiobook-scale batch jobs | Which cost curve wins at your volume | Run both rate cards | Per-character pricing vs. amortized GPU time crosses over unpredictably |
| Cloning someone else's voice | Whether your consent paperwork survives scrutiny | Neither engine alone | Right-of-publicity liability follows the cloner, not the vendor |
| Tonal-language output | Magnitude of cross-lingual degradation | Audition both engines | Multilingual transfer variance is widest here |
| Live, interactive deployment | End-to-end latency on real networks | Prototype end-to-end | Quoted figures exclude jitter, buffering, cold starts |

Before pressing record on anything commercial, run a twenty-line torture script — questions, digits, proper nouns, one code-switched sentence — through both engines on your real reference audio, blind-labeled. Ten minutes of listening settles what no leaderboard can, because the only similarity score that matters is the one your audience computes by ear.

![What the Data Doesn't Tell You — XTTS-v2 vs ElevenLabs](https://static.mm-ais.com/article-images-pixabay/xtts-v2-vs-elevenlabs-6-second-clones-20-a23fcda0.jpg)

## Where the 6-Second Story Breaks

The 6-versus-60-second argument dies on contact with the ablation literature. According to the ablation studies published along the YourTTS and VALL-E lineage, speaker-similarity gains flatten out after a short stretch of reference audio — the curve bends long before either vendor's tier pricing does. Past that knee, microphone technique and room noise dominate whatever error remains. Buyers fight over the flat part of the curve while treating reference length as the quality dial; the published curves say it stopped being one.

The sharper break is acoustic. In controlled degradation testing, once reference SNR drops below roughly 15 dB — an HVAC hum, a laptop fan — or room reverberation stretches past about half a second RT60, speaker-embedding cosine similarity collapses for both engines, because embeddings trained on clean speech drift off-manifold the moment input acoustics leave that distribution. The headline spec quietly assumes studio-clean input, and as of 2026 neither vendor prints that footnote. Cheap field check before you record: clap once in the room. Anything you hear after the clap means your RT60 is flirting with the cliff.

Two engine-specific cracks follow. XTTS-v2, fed an unchunked script much past roughly 500 words, enters token-repetition loops and phoneme hallucinations — a failure mode documented extensively across Coqui's GitHub issue tracker — so the standard workaround is sentence-level stitching, which trades the loops for audible prosodic seams at every join. ElevenLabs has the mirror-image problem: silent base-model upgrades from v2 to v2.5 to v3, traceable in its own release notes, have shifted the timbre of previously generated clones between renders, and neither company's contract offers a frozen-model guarantee. Reproducibility is rented, never owned — archive every render the day you generate it.

Then there is the accent tax nobody benchmarks. Instant Voice Cloning outputs gravitate toward the training corpus's accent prior: non-native and regional-accent speakers report measurable accent flattening across community reports and informal evaluations. The evidence is anecdotal, but the direction is consistent, and crowd-scale leaderboards structurally cannot surface it — raters reward the polished prior, not the preserved identity.

The last crack runs under both platforms. According to the ASVspoof 5 results, state-of-the-art detectors still concede wide attack-success margins to codec-LM spoofers, so no downstream filter will reliably catch a bad clone on your behalf. And Tennessee's ELVIS Act, alongside expanding state right-of-publicity statutes, places civil liability on whoever presses render — neither terms-of-service page functions as a legal shield.

| Failure mode | Trigger | Who it hits | Consequence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Length saturation | Gains flatten after a short reference window | Both engines | Mic technique and room noise dominate instead |
| Acoustic cliff | Roughly 15 dB SNR or half-second RT60 crossed | Both engines | Cosine similarity collapses; re-record clean |
| Long-form decoding | Unchunked scripts beyond roughly 500 words | XTTS-v2 | Token loops, phoneme hallucinations, stitched seams |
| Silent model drift | v2 to v2.5 to v3 base-model upgrades | ElevenLabs | Timbre shifts between renders; no frozen guarantee |
| Accent prior pull | Non-native or regional-accent references | ElevenLabs IVC | Measurable accent flattening vs. source speaker |
| Detection and liability | ASVspoof 5 margins; ELVIS Act-era statutes | Both engines | ToS is not a shield; civil exposure stays with you |

![Where the 6-Second Story Breaks — XTTS-v2 vs ElevenLabs](https://static.mm-ais.com/article-images-pixabay/xtts-v2-vs-elevenlabs-6-second-clones-20-8bf1dec6.jpg)

## A Month of Patched Sentences

Maya publishes 42 history episodes a year, solo, and her correction log runs to a steady stream of patched sentences every month — mispronounced regnal dates, reordered battle sequences, re-cut cold opens. At 12 words (~70 characters) per sentence, that cadence adds up to a recurring block of patch audio she has to price into every production run.

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## Frequently Asked Questions

**Can I sell videos or podcasts made with XTTS-v2 voices?**

No — XTTS-v2 ships under a non-commercial license, meaning not one generated second can legally earn you money.

**Is ElevenLabs' free tier usable for monetized YouTube content?**

The $0 free tier includes three instant-clone slots with audio quality identical to paid plans, but its terms explicitly prohibit cloned audio from appearing in YouTube videos, podcasts, courses, and products.

**What does ElevenLabs' cheapest commercial-rights plan actually cost?**

diyai.io's table verified 8 June 2026 puts Starter at $6/month with instant voice cloning plus a commercial license, while TextToLab's May 2026 snapshot lists the same tier at $5/month — a discrepancy worth checking before checkout.

**How much reference audio do I need to upload for ElevenLabs voice cloning?**

Uploads carry a one-minute minimum, with up to 3 hours accepted for Professional Cloning.

**My reference clip has room noise — can I pay ElevenLabs to clean it up?**

Yes, ElevenLabs sells the cleanup directly: Voice Isolator and Voice Changer each run $0.12 per minute through the API, per Puter's June 2026 catalog.

**Does running XTTS-v2 locally upload my voice recordings to anyone's servers?**

No — because nothing about your voice persists between runs, XTTS-v2 is stateless and the audio never leaves your machine.

## Quick answers

| How much reference audio does XTTS-v2 need to clone a voice, and under what license? | XTTS-v2 converts 6 seconds of reference audio into speech under a non-commercial license. |
| --- | --- |
| What word error rates do ElevenLabs and Microsoft Azure post on Cartesia's comparison page? | ElevenLabs posts a 2.83% word error rate against Microsoft Azure's 3.18% on Cartesia's comparison page. |
| How much does ElevenLabs charge for its Voice Isolator and Voice Changer tools? | Voice Isolator and Voice Changer each run $0.12 per minute through the API, per Puter's June 2026 catalog. |
| What price discrepancy exists for ElevenLabs' Starter commercial tier? | diyai.io's table verified 8 June 2026 puts Starter at $6/month, while TextToLab's May 2026 snapshot lists the same tier at $5/month. |
| What shared ancestor do both XTTS-v2 and ElevenLabs descend from? | Both systems descend from Microsoft's 2023 VALL-E paper, which established the codec-LM recipe of transformers predicting discrete audio-codec tokens. |

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