Today, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, a speech synthesis tool that can smoothly handle multiple languages is particularly important. Researchers from the University of Stuttgart have launched ToucanTTS, an amazing text-to-speech (TTS) model that supports more than 7,000 languages, covering almost all ISO-639-3 standard languages. This will undoubtedly greatly promote communication and understanding between different languages around the world, opening up new possibilities for cross-cultural communication and artificial intelligence applications. The emergence of ToucanTTS marks a new milestone in speech synthesis technology.
In this world with all kinds of strange languages, does it feel like it’s harder to find a speech synthesis assistant that can speak all the languages in the world? Don’t worry, the top students at the University of Stuttgart have come up with a big move-ToucanTTS, a Text-to-speech (TTS) model that speaks over 7,000 languages!
ToucanTTS, this dynamic-sounding name, is behind the black technology of IMS. It supports almost all ISO-639-3 standard languages, which means it can theoretically speak more languages than you know. The potential for this on a global scale is simply unlimited.
Core functions:
Multi-language support: ToucanTTS supports almost all ISO-639-3 standard languages and can theoretically cover more than 7,000 languages. It is currently the TTS model that supports the most languages.
Multiple styles of speech synthesis: Supports simulating the rhythm, stress and intonation of different speakers, providing style diversity and voice customization.
Controllable speech synthesis: Users can control speech parameters such as pitch, speaking speed, and emotion to generate speech with different emotions or styles.
High-quality speech generation: Utilizing the PyTorch framework and deep learning technology to ensure high fidelity and naturalness of speech generation.
Human editing function: Contains human-in-the-loop editing function, suitable for literary research and poetry reading tasks.
Self-contained aligner: Aligner that includes CTC and spectrogram reconstruction training to improve speech synthesis accuracy and quality.
Data preprocessing tools: Provide data preprocessing tools to simplify the preparation of training data.
A person has thousands of faces, and his voice can also "change his face"
ToucanTTS can not only speak multiple languages, but can also simulate the styles of different speakers, whether it is intonation, stress or rhythm, you can easily control it. This is great news for applications that require voice diversity.
The toolkit also allows users to control multiple parameters of speech, such as pitch, speed, emotion, and more. Do you want gentle comfort or passionate encouragement? ToucanTTS can give it to you.
High-quality voice, as natural as a real person speaking
Using the PyTorch framework and deep learning technology, the speech quality generated by ToucanTTS is so high that it can be fake. End-to-end training and inference allow it to handle complex speech synthesis tasks with ease.
ToucanTTS also has a human-in-the-loop editing function, which is particularly suitable for literary research and poetry reading. Users can customize the synthesized voice according to their own preferences, allowing the machine to understand your heart better.
Self-contained aligner makes speech synthesis more accurate
The built-in aligner, trained using CTC and spectrogram reconstruction, further improves the accuracy and quality of speech synthesis.
ToucanTTS also provides a complete set of data preprocessing tools to simplify the preparation of training data and make speech synthesis more efficient.
Project address: https://github.com/DigitalPhonetics/IMS-Toucan
Online demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Flux9665/MassivelyMultilingualTTS
All in all, ToucanTTS has brought revolutionary breakthroughs to the field of speech synthesis with its powerful multi-language support, high-quality speech generation and convenient operability, and its future application prospects are immeasurable. We look forward to ToucanTTS being widely used in various fields and bringing a more convenient and smarter voice experience to users around the world.