Italian Checkpoint
I noticed that there are examples of Italian entries. is it possible to also have the checkpoint so as to do fine-tuning?
I have a checkpoint, but it is for the "x-low" audio quality and has fewer phonemes than the current Piper models. I think you will actually have better luck starting from one of the English Lessac checkpoints and fine-tuning Italian.
Hi Michael,
I’m reaching out to ask for some support with Piper TTS. I’m not experiencing any particular issues, but I’d like to ensure I’m getting the best possible results when cloning a voice.
I’ve done all my recordings using piper-recording-studio in Italian, and I have 1150 recordings in total. I’ve noticed that the sample rate of the recordings is 48000 Hz, so I’m wondering if setting -sample_rate 22050 during piper_train.preprocess will automatically normalize the recordings to the correct sample rate.
Also, would it make sense to enable validation to monitor for potential overfitting?
At the moment, I’ve trained on 500 recordings with a batch size of 22, and the loss values I’m sharing in the attached image reflect about 3000 epochs of training. I’m doing fine-tuning on a medium English model, but I previously tried the high model, where I achieved slightly better results in fewer epochs (about 1000) with a batch size of 16.
Lastly, I wanted to ask about the dataset size needed to train a model from scratch. I’m planning to create an Italian model from scratch, as I’ve found a corpus of 59,000 multi-speaker recordings.
Thank you so much for your support!