Kokoro 82M Kannada

--- language: kn license: apache-2.0 tags: [text-to-speech, tts, kannada, kokoro, styletts2] pipeline_tag: text-to-speech --- # Kokoro-82M · Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) Fast, small, open Kannada TTS: [Kokoro-82M](https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M) (distilled StyleTTS2) fine-tuned for Kannada **with a trained diffusion prosody sampler** — the component stock Kokoro drops, and the difference between robotic and natural prosody. - 🔊 **Samples:** https://huggingface.co/spaces/Sammy-Mohan/kannada-tts - 📖 **Code, recipe & the full journey (all findings):** https://github.com/sammy4321/Kokoro-Indic-Fine-Tuning ## Files | file | purpose | |---|---| | `kokoro_kannada_00005_inference.pth` | model weights (optimizer stripped, inference-ready) | | `config_kn.yml` | StyleTTS2 architecture/config | | `ref_spk9.wav` | the style-reference clip = the shipped voice (full-bandwidth speaker — important, see repo) | ## Usage Use the inference script (handles the fork's architecture code + diffusion sampling + best-of-N): ```bash git clone https://github.com/sammy4321/Kokoro-Indic-Fine-Tuning cd Kokoro-Indic-Fine-Tuning && pip install -r demo/requirements.txt huggingface_hub python inference/synthesize.py --text "ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ!" --out out.wav --best-of 3 ``` ## Details 82M params · 24 kHz · trained on ~11 h public Kannada speech ([SPRINGLab IndicTTS](https://huggingface.co/datasets/SPRINGLab/IndicTTS_Kannada) + [AI4Bharat Rasa](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ai4bharat/Rasa), 17 speakers) for <$100 of compute. ASR round-trip CER 0.00 on clean text. Known gaps: numerals-as-digits and heavy English code-switching need a text-normalization frontend (roadmap). **License:** code Apache-2.0; weights are derived from the datasets above — check their terms before commercial use; attribution required. Built on StyleTTS2 (MIT), Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0), and the [kikiri-tts](https://github.com/semidark/kikiri-tts) recipe.

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