Sorotts

--- license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 language: - yo - ha - ig - pcm base_model: hypaai/hypaai_orpheus_v5 base_model_relation: adapter library_name: peft pipeline_tag: text-to-speech datasets: - naijavoices/naijavoices-dataset - google/fleurs - google/WaxalNLP - asr-nigerian-pidgin/nigerian-pidgin-1.0 tags: - text-to-speech - tts - speech-synthesis - orpheus - snac - lora - peft - unsloth - yoruba - hausa - igbo - nigerian-pidgin - nigeria - african-languages - multilingual - low-resource --- # SoroTTS: a natural voice for Yorùbá, Hausa, Igbo, and Nigerian Pidgin **SoroTTS** (from *sọ̀rọ̀*, "speak" in Yorùbá) is a LoRA fine-tune of **Orpheus-3B** that gives natural, expressive text-to-speech in **four Nigerian languages**, Yorùbá, Hausa, Igbo, and Nigerian Pidgin, from a single adapter under the **4B "Tiny Titan"** line. It powers [**Naija Solar**](https://huggingface.co/spaces/build-small-hackathon/naija-solar), a voice-first solar-sizing app that reads your plan aloud in your own language, and it was built for the **Build Small Hackathon** (Gradio × Hugging Face). 🔊 **[Listen](#-listen)**  ·  🟢 **[Try it in Naija Solar](https://huggingface.co/spaces/build-small-hackathon/naija-solar)**  ·  🎥 **[Demo video](https://youtu.be/PfQeRfNof8Y)**  ·  💻 **[Training code on GitHub](https://github.com/Mystique1337/naija-solar)** ## 🔊 Listen Hear each language (cleanest voice per language): | Language | Voice | Sample | |---|---|---| | Yorùbá | `Yor1` | [yor_Yor1.wav](https://huggingface.co/Shinzmann/sorotts/resolve/main/samples/yor_Yor1.wav) | | Hausa | `Hau1` | [hau_Hau1.wav](https://huggingface.co/Shinzmann/sorotts/resolve/main/samples/hau_Hau1.wav) | | Igbo | `Ibo1` | [ibo_Ibo1.wav](https://huggingface.co/Shinzmann/sorotts/resolve/main/samples/ibo_Ibo1.wav) | | Nigerian Pidgin | `NaijaA` | [pcm_NaijaA.wav](https://huggingface.co/Shinzmann/sorotts/resolve/main/samples/pcm_NaijaA.wav) | ## Why it exists Off-the-shelf TTS for Nigerian languages is either robotic (Meta MMS) or simply absent. Orpheus is one of the most natural open speech LLMs, but it is English-first and speaks no Nigerian language. SoroTTS closes that gap. It keeps Orpheus's natural prosody while speaking Yorùbá, Hausa, Igbo, and the language no public model spoke before, **Nigerian Pidgin**, the everyday tongue of perhaps a hundred million people. ## What it is...