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v3.1

maximhq/bifrostv3.1Jul 25, 2024by Flux9665

AI Summary

Enhances multilingual TTS capabilities with stochastic prosody prediction, expanded IPA modifiers, and increased language coverage.

Key Highlights

  • Prosody prediction now samples from a distribution (stochastic) instead of fixed mappings
  • Added support for more IPA modifiers to cover additional languages
  • Expanded language support in pretraining
  • Overhauled language similarity prediction modules and visualization

New Features

  • Stochastic prosody prediction
  • Expanded IPA modifier support
  • Increased language pretraining coverage

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