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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…
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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…