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Abstract: Though neural text-to-speech (TTS) models show remarkable performance, they still require a large amount of $< speech, text>$ paired dataset, which is expensive to collect. The heavy demand ...

Abstract: Large-scale pre-training has been shown to benefit speech translation tasks. However, existing multimodal pre-training efforts rely on parallel corpora for semantic alignment, potentially ...

Kokoro Web is powered by hexgrad/Kokoro-82M, an open-weight 82 million parameter Text-to-Speech model available on Hugging Face. Despite its lightweight architecture, it delivers comparable quality to ...