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📣 kamathsutra

Hindi Conversational Text-to-Speech?


We were developing Sapien(https://smallest.ai/sapien), primarily focused on the Indian markets and we realize that there is no text-to-speech for conversational Hindi. US accents from elevenlabs and playHT are pretty good but Indian accents are narrative and not conversational in nature.

We are hence planning to develop this in-house. However if there is someone out there who provides low latency text-to-speech in conversational Hindi, then we would much rather use their solution.

Do you guys know anyone who does? Or do you think we should go after this ourselves?

  👤 samspenc Accepted Answer ✓
Microsoft has announced some work on this, but I haven't anything in product form yet, maybe in the future?

https://news.microsoft.com/en-in/indian-startup-sarvam-ai-co...

https://fortune.com/asia/2024/01/27/microsoft-ai-india-langu...

https://news.microsoft.com/source/asia/features/microsoft-re...

👤 sfmz
Vosk has a Hindi model but for some reason its not baked into the demo

https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models

https://ccoreilly.github.io/vosk-browser/

👤 theriddlr
My friend was a contractor for Hindi TTS at Google https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech
👤 nmfisher
Someone is trying to train a WhisperSpeech model for Hindi but I haven’t heard any news about it yet, so it might not be ready.

I’d also check out https://github.com/dubverse-ai/MahaTTS

👤 dpig_
> Indian accents are narrative and not conversational in nature

What are some examples of how these things differ? I've been exploring Hindi recently, but find that I'm learning some pretty stuffy speech from Snell's books.