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v3.1

casey/justv3.1Jul 25, 2024by Flux9665

AI Summary

This release improves the universal text-to-speech model by introducing stochastic prosody prediction and expanding language support with more IPA modifiers and pretraining languages.

Key Highlights

  • Implemented stochastic prosody prediction for pitch, energy, and durations.
  • Expanded support for more IPA modifiers to cover additional languages.
  • Overhauled language similarity prediction modules and visualization.
  • Added more languages to the pretraining dataset.

New Features

  • Stochastic prosody prediction
  • Expanded IPA modifiers
  • Improved language similarity prediction
  • Expanded pretraining languages

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed

This release provides new checkpoints and improves some aspects of the previous release that were not included due to time constraints.  For more information on the universal TTS model for 7000 languages, please refer to the previous release v3.0

- Prosody prediction in terms of pitch, energy and durations are now stochastic and sample from a distribution instead of assuming a one-to-one mapping. 
- Added support for more IPA modifiers to cover more languages
- Added more languages into the pretraining 
- Overhauled language similarity prediction modules and visualization

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/DigitalPhonetics/IMS-Toucan/compare/v3.0...v3.1