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LoRA Adds 8 Indian Languages to TTS
#tts#indic-languages#low-rank-adapterschatterbox-indic-lorachatterboxlorahuggingfacewhisper
💡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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