Vagdhenu is a Sanskrit shloka‑to‑chant text‑to‑speech system that preserves meter (vrutta) and phonological nuances. It builds on an off‑the‑shelf flow‑matching backbone and a large‑scale neural vocoder, adding a Kannada‑based frontend to avoid schwa deletion, a phonology‑aware frontend handling visarga sandhi and sibilant distinctions, and a vrutta‑aware reference selection mechanism. The authors report that a text‑side prosody conditioner is ineffective in their architecture, while reference clips and voice‑steering retraining provide the necessary prosody control, and they demonstrate the system’s performance on a 32‑chapter video corpus and an audio app covering 18,000 verses. whyItMatters":"The system delivers high‑fidelity, meter‑aware Sanskrit chanting, enabling large‑scale deployment of authentic recitations for educational and cultural preservation purposes."
arXiv:2609.14817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Yor\`ub\'a, pitch alone separates \d{o}k\d{o} (husband, Mid), \d{o}k\d{\`o} (vehicle, Low), and \d{o}k\d{\'o} (hoe, High) -- the diacritics ARE the...
TontaubeV1 is a streaming text‑to‑speech model that preserves natural prosody while running on a single consumer GPU. It encodes speech with a hierarchical DualCodec representation at 12.5 Hz, separating a semantic stream from successive acoustic refinements, and uses Qwen3‑derived transformers to predict the semantic stream, utterance duration, and acoustic refinements. The system supports up to one minute of reference audio for voice conditioning, streams with a 200 ms latency to first audio, and achieves real‑time factors of 0.08 (single input) and 0.02 (eight concurrent inputs).
TontaubeV1 is a streaming text‑to‑speech model that maintains natural prosody while running on a single consumer GPU. It encodes speech with a hierarchical DualCodec representation at 12.5 Hz, separating a semantic stream from successive acoustic refinements, and uses Qwen3‑derived transformers to predict the semantic stream and add refinements. The model supports up to one minute of reference audio for voice conditioning, streams with a 200 ms latency to first audio, and achieves real‑time factors of 0.08 (single input) and 0.02 (eight concurrent inputs).
arXiv:2608. 06027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In India, almost every social benefit starts with a form, yet the people who need these benefits most are often unable to read or write.
arXiv:2510.10774v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Persian remains substantially underrepresented in open speech-text resources, limiting progress in multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS), speech...
arXiv:2606. 05852v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-speech (TTS) and singing voice synthesis (SVS) both aim to generate human vocal audio from symbolic inputs, but they impose different requirements on the generation process.
Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) have substantially improved speech quality and voice cloning fidelity. However, many zero-shot TTS systems still depend on audio prompt transcripts at inference time.
The paper presents a method for creating a compact fixed‑voice Thai text‑to‑speech system by training a student model on synthetic speech generated from a large voice‑cloning teacher. By using only a short 15‑second voice reference and carefully filtering synthetic data, the authors build an 82‑million‑parameter model, Wayu‑Paxa‑TTS‑Edge, that runs on device without reference audio. The system achieves strong performance—68.2 % challenge‑set keyword accuracy, 91.4 % pause precision, and low character error rates—while outperforming its teacher and approaching the quality of a larger Gemini 3.1 model.
arXiv:2606. 07080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present dots.
arXiv:2609.12960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sanskrit fuses case, number, person and tense into word endings and chains clauses into compounds, so it is information-dense per word. Whether that de...
arXiv:2606. 26144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speaker diarization, the task of determining "who spoke when" in a multi-speaker recording, is a critical component in applications such as meeting transcription, accessibility tools, and multilingual information retrieval.
arXiv:2608. 12327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual pretrained models nominally support Nepali, yet no controlled benchmark has compared them under a single fine-tuning protocol.