Coqui's Tenth Mondays Newsletter
- 👩💻Work at Coqui
- Welcome! 👋🐸
- Welcoming Aya AlJa'fari to the Coqui team
- 👉🏽 YourTTS
- 🐸💬 TTS v0.5.0
- NeurIPS data set + data panel
👩💻Work at Coqui
By Kelly Davis
We’re still hiring!
An open source remote-friendly Berlin based startup founded by the creators of Mozilla’s text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) engines (over 750K downloads and 30K GitHub stars), with the backing of top-flight investors and we’re hiring!
What’s not to love?
We’re hiring across-the-board for a number of roles; so, there’s something for everyone:
- Head of Product
- Senior Full Stack Engineers
- Senior STT Deep Learning Engineer
- Senior, Developer Community Managers
The full list of open positions is available on our jobs page.
We’d love to hear from you; so, if any roles pique your interest, reach out to [email protected]. 🐸!
Welcome! 👋🐸
By Kelly Davis
Happy New Year! 🎉🎊🥳
With this new year Coqui welcomes a new member to our team, Aya AlJa’fari🎉! Aya is joining us as a Senior Deep Learning Engineer and we feel lucky to have her on board. Please join us in welcoming Aya 🎉!
Also we’ve added YourTTS to our TTS repo, a new model we’re pretty excited about. With only a very small amount of data it’s able to clone your voice, which is exciting enough, but it’s also able to clone your voice into any number of languages. You give a small English sample, then out comes a cloned voice in Brazilian Portuguese or any number of other languages! We’ve set up a demo. Try it out!
We’ve also released 🐸TTS v0.5.0, a new 🐸TTS version for you, delivered fresh! With tons of new features:
- Multilingual training API
- YourTTS code and models
- Ukrainian Multi-band MelGAN
Full of goodness!
Last but certainly not least, is news from NeurIPS, the biggest deep learning conference on the planet. Collaborating closely with Harvard, Google, and ML Commons at NeurIPS we released the Multilingual Spoken Words Corpus! It has 340,000 keywords in 50 languages 🤯and we released it under a Creative Commons BY-SA license! You can use it for research and production!
Enjoy the new year🎉🎊🥳
Welcoming Aya AlJa’fari to the Coqui team
We are very excited to announce that Coqui is growing! We welcome Aya AlJa’fari, joining us as Senior Deep Learning Engineer and employee #1 at Coqui! Aya joins us from Jordan and brings extensive experience building production speech-to-text systems. Aya has impressed us from our first calls, so it is very exciting to have her on board. Those of you following the repository have already noticed that Aya is already hard at work improving usability and accuracy for the 🐸STT engine!
Aya has been working as a machine learning engineer for 3.5 years in the field of speech recognition and natural language processing at Samsung Research and Development Institute. She specializes in Electrical Engineering and Signal Processing and has worked on the problem of speaker anonymization using GANs in her master’s thesis. She has worked on several machine learning projects as part of a team responsible for enhancing and expanding the language support of Samsung’s speech recognition technology. She also developed a number of proof-of-concepts and filed four patents in the field.
We will continue to improve our 🐸STT packages, models and training infrastructure to bring high quality speech-to-text to a variety of languages, use cases, and technical stacks, from research to production. Does that sound interesting? Join our Gitter chat and discussion forums to keep up-to-date with the latest developments and to collaborate with Aya and the rest of the team! Already an expert? We’re hiring!
👉🏽 YourTTS
By Eren Gölge
The recent surge of new end-to-end deep learning models has enabled new and exciting Text-to-Speech (TTS) use-cases with impressive natural-sounding results. However, most of these models are trained on massive datasets (20-40 hours) recorded with a single speaker in a professional environment. In this setting, expanding your solution to multiple languages and speakers is not feasible for everyone. Moreover, it is particularly tough for low-resource languages not commonly targeted by mainstream research. To get rid of these limitations and bring zero-shot TTS to low resource languages, we built YourTTS, which can synthesize voices in multiple languages and reduce data requirements significantly by transferring knowledge among languages in the training set. For instance, we can easily introduce Brazilian Portuguese to the model with a single speaker dataset by co-training with a larger English dataset. The model can then speak Brazilian Portuguese with voices from the English dataset, or we can even introduce new speakers by zero-shot learning on the fly.
For more visit our blog post
- 👉 Try out YourTTS demo (Made with Gradio 👑)
- 👉 Visit YourTTS project page
- 👉 Try YourTTS on Colab
- 👉 Try voice conversion with YourTTS on Colab
Big thanks to all the 🐸TTS contributors who made this work possible and to all the authors; Edresson Casanova, Julian Weber, Christopher Shulby, Arnaldo Candido Junior, Moacir Antonelli Ponti
🐸💬 TTS v0.5.0
By Eren Gölge
v0.5.0 comes with a long list of updates. Some of the important ones are:
- Multilingual training API
- YourTTS model implementation
- YourTTS model release.
For example, using YourTTS is as easy as:
tts --text "this is my sample text." \
--model_name tts_models/multilingual/multi-dataset/your_tts \
--speaker_wav reference/voice/path.wav --language_idx en
Also V0.5.0 comes with
- Ukrainian Multi-band MelGAN vocoder release. (👑@robinhad)
which is callable as follows:
tts --text "як ти сьогодні?" --model_name tts_models/uk/mai/glow-tts
Check the release notes for more details.
NeurIPS data set + data panel
By Josh Meyer
Coqui has been collaborating closely with researchers from Harvard, Google, and ML Commons to create and deliver a first of its kind voice dataset: the Multilingual Spoken Words Corpus.
The data set is perfect for training wakeword, hotword, or command-and-control speech applications. It’s got a whopping 340,000 keywords in 50 languages 🤯Best part? We released it under a Creative Commons BY-SA license, so the data’s yours for both research and production.
We presented the dataset at NeurIPS 2021, in the inaugural Datasets and Benchmarks track. NeurIPS created this special new track “to serve as a venue for exceptional work focused on creating high-quality datasets.”
You can watch the official NeurIPS video presentation for yourself.