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Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages
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Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages
New from Meta AI: Massively Multilingual Speech. "MMS supports speech-to-text and text-to-speech for 1,107 languages and language identification for over 4,000 languages. [...] Some of these, such as the Tatuyo language, have only a few hundred speakers, and for most of these languages, no prior speech technology exists."
It's licensed CC-BY-NC 4.0 though, so it's not available for commercial use.
"In a like-for-like comparison with OpenAI’s Whisper, we found that models trained …
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