BanglaBox: A Phonetically-Balanced Corpus and Data-Efficient Foundation-Model Adaptation for Bangla Text-to-Speech with Zero-Shot Voice Cloning

Emtiaz Uddin Ahmed, Araf Mahmud, Sajib Hossain +3

We present a recipe for adapting English-pretrained autoregressive TTS foundation models to underrepresented languages, demonstrated on Bangladeshi Bangla. Existing Bangla TTS corp…