Ervin Shaqiri

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Loka

Ervin Shaqiri contributes to Loka's engineering publication as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer. Their published work covers Open Source, TTS, Audio, Deployment.

Published work

Pushing Open-Source TTS Models to Their Limits: Six Paradigms, 14 Models, One Production Reality Check
Ervin Shaqiri, Alexandre Domingues · July 2, 2026
In the digital audio subset of AI, the questions currently on everyone’s mind are
Speech synthesis
Pushing Open-Source TTS Models to Their Limits
Ervin Shaqiri, Alexandre Domingues · July 1, 2026
Fourteen open-source text-to-speech models across six emotion-control paradigms, benchmarked against AWS Nova Sonic v2 on naturalness, expressiveness, latency, and licensing.

Published work

Pushing Open-Source TTS Models to Their Limits: Six Paradigms, 14 Models, One Production Reality Check

Pushing Open-Source TTS Models to Their Limits