Generative Urdu Speech Synthesis

Announcement

The weights are opensourced here: https://huggingface.co/zohann/urdu-tts

Features

<ul>
  <li><strong>South-Asian Accent Voice Cloning:</strong> tortoise-tts better captures european and american accents but when a non native speaker voice is cloned it americanizes that voice and completely fails. This model has been finetuned on a south-asian accent dataset, so it performs very well in cloning voices with a south-asian accent.
    to better capture and reproduce Indian accents, enabling accurate voice cloning for a variety of Indian English accents. It offers improved voice quality and natural-sounding speech synthesis for a more authentic experience.</li>
  <li><strong>Urdu Text-to-Speech:</strong> The model also includes support for Urdu text-to-speech, it can understand the arabic-urdu script and produce speech in urdu based on the text. </li>
</ul>

Results

Results and audios samples here: https://ahmedhanzala.github.io/urdu-tts/

Reference

• https://github.com/152334H/DL-Art-School
• https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

License

<p>This project is licensed under the <a href="https://github.com/ahmedHanzala/urdu-tts/blob/main/LICENSE">MIT License</a>. Feel free to use and modify the code according to your needs.</p>