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Training a new voice for Piper TTS with only a single phrase

by naggie on 7/3/25, 12:31 PM with 1 comments

  • by magicalhippo on 7/3/25, 1:01 PM

    Author uses Chatterbox TTS' zero-shot voice cloning to generate synthetic training data from a single phrase, Whisper STT to verify the generated voice sample to catch generation errors, and then uses the synthetic data set to fine-tune Piper TTS the standard way.