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posted an update Sep 17
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Bringing Open-Source Text-to-Speech to French! πŸ—£οΈπŸ‡«πŸ‡·

Hugging Face's Parler TTS mini can now speak French! πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸŽ‰
You can try it here: PHBJT/french_parler_tts

Key highlights:
Transform the English TTS model to speak French πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§βž‘οΈπŸ‡«πŸ‡·
Fully open source (code, weights, and datasets) πŸ› οΈ
It can be replicated for every language 🌍

Read more about it in this article: https://huggingface.co/blog/PHBJT/french-parler-tts

Special thanks to FlexAI and their dedicated team for providing the computing power that made this possible and of course to all of the Parler TTS community πŸ€—

Hi.. this is amazing thanks for this
I want to use some advice from you for an endangered/low resource Language (35hrs) which is not too bad for such class of Language
Is it a really stringent that it must be meet this criteria ( minimum: 100 hours of audio (up to 1000 hours for optimal results))
I don't hope for perfection for a start and how do I handle cases where my tokenizer is not captured in FlanT5. Thanks

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Hi! 35 hours might work (some people have reported success with 48 hours and >50k steps, if I recall correctly), but you will probably not get very good results.
Regarding the tokenizer and phonemizer, it would help if you could tell me which language you are targeting.