rhasspy / piper

A fast, local neural text to speech system
https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
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Fine tuning on a different language #440

Open CavidanZ opened 2 months ago

CavidanZ commented 2 months ago

Hello. I would like to fine-tune the Turkish pre-trained model on my own dataset. However, the language I will use is different - Azerbaijani. While there are a lot of similarities between the two languages, it is still a different language. So I am wondering how I could set up the fine-tuning so that it adapts to the new language while getting the benefits of transfer learning? The main things that would be changed are:

  1. Letters - there are a few more in Azerbaijani language.
  2. Espeak-ng phonemiser - Azerbaijani language is available there.

I am doing the training in Google Colab, and could not find how to change the above 2. Thanks beforehand!