akreal 16 hours ago

As far as I understand, the MMS TTS models are trained from scratch (section 7.1 of [1]), they do not employ any SSL models. So the OmniASR SSL models are not useful here.

What might be interesting is the newly released OmniASR data, because the MMS data, which was used for the MMS TTS, was never released.

Also, the OmniASR can be used to transcribe some untranscribed speech to train a TTS on it.

[1] MMS paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13516

  • woodson 15 hours ago

    You’re completely right, I misremembered. I edited my post.

willwade 16 hours ago

Meta cheated with the mms models. That is they didn’t use a phonemeizsr step. This means they just won’t work or sound very strange. ASR data is usually not quite right for tts. But anyhow - not really answering your question but many of these languages already done in mms. Try them https://huggingface.co/spaces/willwade/sherpa-onnx-tts