african-low-resource/omnivoice-amharic

Mirror of Hugging Face african-low-resource/omnivoice-amharic # OmniVoice Amharic — Open Voice AI for 60M Speakers > **⚠️ Model weights** — This repo mirrors the Hugging Face repo metadata and configuration. The full model weights (`model.safetensors`, ~2.45 GB) are hosted on Hugging Face: african-low-resource/omnivo… > > > This is the highest-quality open Amharic TTS model available today. It generates natural, expressive speech from text and can clone any speaker's voice from a 10-second audio sample. --- ## 🚀 Quick Try (No Install) **Live Demo**: Try it in your browser → --- ## 📊 At a Glance | | | |---|---| | **Languages** | Amharic (primary), English, Chinese (base model) | | **Architecture** | Non-autoregressive discrete diffusion | | **Parameters** | 612.6M (Qwen3-0.6B + HiggsAudioV2, 8 codebooks) | | **Training data** | ~81,731 samples / ~331 hours | | **Best loss** | **3.9518** (step 10,000 / 12,000) | | **License** | Apache 2.0 | | **Downloads** | **42,000+** (via Hugging Face) | | **Inference cost** | Runs on free Google Colab T4 (~3GB VRAM) | | **Voice cloning** | Zero-shot, 10s reference audio | --- ## 🎯 What Makes This Special ### 1. Actually Sounds Like Amharic Most "multilingual" TTS models (MMS, XTTS) produce Amharic that sounds robotic or mispronounces ejective consonants (ጠ, ጰ, ጸ, ፀ, ቸ, ጨ). This model was trained **exclusively on Amharic audio** and preserves: - Correct ejective / glottalic consonant articulation - Natural prosody and rhythm (not English rhythm overlaid on Amharic words) - Gemination (double consonants: ሀበተ vs ሀብቴ) - Pitch patterns for questions vs statements ### 2. Voice Cloning Works Give it 10 seconds of any Amharic speaker and it will synthesize new sentences in that voice. Tested on: - Male/female voices - Formal news-reading style - Casual conversational style - Different Ethiopian dialects (Addis Ababa, Gondar, Wollo) ### 3. Open Everything - ✅ Open weights (Apache 2.0) - ✅ Open training code - ✅ Open datasets (or documented sources) - ✅ O …