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LoRA Adds 8 Indian Languages to TTS

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💡1.4% params add 8 Indic langs to open TTS—efficient fine-tuning blueprint

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What Changed

Added Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi via LoRA (7.8M params).

Why It Matters

Enables low-cost multilingual TTS for 500M+ speakers, democratizing audio AI for Indic languages.

What To Do Next

Download chatterbox-indic-lora from Hugging Face and test audio samples.

Who should care:Developers & AI Engineers

Key Points

  • Added Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi via LoRA (7.8M params).
  • Grapheme-level: extended BPE tokenizer from 2454 to 2871 tokens.
  • CER results: Hindi 0.1058 (improved), Malayalam 0.8593 (needs more data).
  • Incremental training prevents forgetting; model frozen except LoRA.
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