BnTTS: Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation in Low-Resource Setting (2025.findings-naacl)
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Mohammad Jahid Ibna Basher, Md Kowsher, Md Saiful Islam, Rabindra Nath Nandi, Nusrat Jahan Prottasha, Mehadi Hasan Menon, Tareq Al Muntasir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam, Niloofar Yousefi, Ozlem Garibay
| Challenge: | Empirical evaluations in few-shot settings show that BnTTS significantly improves the naturalness, intelligibility, and speaker fidelity of synthesized Bangla speech. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate Bangla into a multilingual TTS pipeline with modifications to account for the phonetic and linguistic characteristics of the language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves the naturalness, intelligibility, and speaker fidelity of synthesized Bangla speech compared to state-of-the-art systems. |
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