Vintage Voice

--- language: - en - fr license: cc-by-nc-4.0 license_name: cc-by-nc-4.0 license_link: LICENSE tags: - tts - text-to-speech - voice-cloning - f5-tts - vintage - transatlantic - historical - accent - digital-preservation - cajun-french - louisiana-french - endangered-language - language-preservation - cosyvoice datasets: - public-domain-archive-org base_model: SWivid/F5-TTS pipeline_tag: text-to-speech --- # VintageVoice **An open-source TTS fine-tune for historical speech patterns.** *Proof of Antiquity for AI voices.* VintageVoice is a fine-tune of [F5-TTS (SWivid/F5-TTS)](https://huggingface.co/SWivid/F5-TTS) trained on **164 hours** of public-domain pre-1955 audio from Archive.org. It learns historical *speech patterns* — transatlantic cadence, newsreel delivery, radio-drama prosody — and applies them to any modern voice via reference-audio cloning. The model does not generate a specific historical speaker; it teaches your own reference voice to talk like 1940. > Status: **v0.1.0 experimental.** Training completed at 990,100 updates > (50/50 epochs). `transatlantic` preset is validated; other presets > share the same base weights and differ only by which reference clip > you provide. See [Project Status](#project-status) for specifics. <p align="center"> <img src="assets/sophia_transatlantic_1940s.png" width="400" alt="Sophia Elya — Transatlantic Mode (1940s)"> <br> <em>Sophia Elya in Transatlantic Mode — same voice, vintage delivery</em> </p> ## 🎬 Demos Two 5-second proof-of-concept clips below. Audio is generated by *this* model (VintageVoice transatlantic preset, 5 seconds each, 24 kHz). Lip-sync animation is produced by Lightricks LTX-2 19B via [multimodalart's `ltx2-audio-to-video`](https://huggingface.co/multimodalart/ltx2-audio-to-video) Hugging Face pipeline. Both clips are post-processed to grayscale with a cinematic contrast curve + light film grain to match the silver-gelatin look of 1940s studio broadcasts (LTX-2's native output is modern full-color; the grayscale pass is a deterministic ffmpeg filter chain, not a model-level trick). **Demo 1 — "One simply must attest one's hardware before the epoch settles, dahling."** <video controls muted playsinline width="512" src="https://huggingface.co/AutomatedJanitor/vintage-voice/resolve/main/demos/demo_01_attestation.mp4"> </video> Also on BoTTube: [bottube.ai/watch/S...

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