AI RESEARCH
[P] Added 8 Indian languages to Chatterbox TTS via LoRA — 1.4% of parameters, no phoneme engineering [P]
r/MachineLearning
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TL;DR: Fine-tuned Chatterbox-Multilingual (Resemble AI's open-source TTS) to Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, and Hindi using LoRA adapters + tokenizer extension. Only 7.8M / 544M parameters trained. Model + audio samples available. --- The Problem Chatterbox-Multilingual s 23 languages with zero-shot voice cloning, but no Dravidian languages (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam) and limited Indo-Aryan coverage beyond Hindi. That's 500M+ speakers with no representation.