Fine-Tuning a Large Multilingual Text-to-Speech Model for Nepali on Consumer Hardware: A Teacher Model for Knowledge Distillation with Speaker Identity Verification
Nepali is a low resource language for speech technology and there is very little open text-to-speech support for it. Most high quality neural TTS models are too large to run in real time on the low end machines that are common in Nepal, and the usual answer to that problem is knowledge distillation, where a large teach...