6 papers
Phir Hera Fairy: An English Fairytaler is a Strong Faker of Fluent Speech in Low-Resource Indian Languages
Praveen Srinivasa Varadhan, Srija Anand, Soma Siddhartha +1
What happens when an English Fairytaler is fine-tuned on Indian languages? We evaluate how the English F5-TTS model adapts to 11 Indian languages, measuring polyglot fluency, voice…
RASMALAI: Resources for Adaptive Speech Modeling in Indian Languages with Accents and Intonations
Ashwin Sankar, Yoach Lacombe, Sherry Thomas +3
We introduce RASMALAI, a large-scale speech dataset with rich text descriptions, designed to advance controllable and expressive text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis for 23 Indian langua…
Rethinking MUSHRA: Addressing Modern Challenges in Text-to-Speech Evaluation
Praveen Srinivasa Varadhan, Amogh Gulati, Ashwin Sankar +8
Despite rapid advancements in TTS models, a consistent and robust human evaluation framework is still lacking. For example, MOS tests fail to differentiate between similar models,…
ELAICHI: Enhancing Low-resource TTS by Addressing Infrequent and Low-frequency Character Bigrams
Srija Anand, Praveen Srinivasa Varadhan, Mehak Singal +1
Recent advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology have led to natural-sounding speech for English, primarily due to the availability of large-scale, high-quality web data. How…
IndicVoices-R: Unlocking a Massive Multilingual Multi-speaker Speech Corpus for Scaling Indian TTS
Ashwin Sankar, Srija Anand, Praveen Srinivasa Varadhan +7
Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis show that large-scale models trained with extensive web data produce highly natural-sounding output. However, such data is sca…
Rasa: Building Expressive Speech Synthesis Systems for Indian Languages in Low-resource Settings
Praveen Srinivasa Varadhan, Ashwin Sankar, Giri Raju +1
We release Rasa, the first multilingual expressive TTS dataset for any Indian language, which contains 10 hours of neutral speech and 1-3 hours of expressive speech for each of the…