tts/README.md

🔊 TTS Workspace

Place TTS baselines, training configs, and quality-evaluation scripts here.

✅ Verified Pashto-Relevant TTS Resources

🌐 Meta MMS Coverage (ASR + TTS language support)

• Coverage page: MMS language coverage
• Pashto validation: row includes pus with TTS support.
• Use in this repo: multilingual transfer baseline for Pashto synthesis.
• Applications: baseline voice generation, pronunciation checks, accessibility tools.

🧪 Meta MMS TTS Model Collection

• Model card: huggingface.co/facebook/mms-tts
• Why useful: broad multilingual TTS package with language-specific checkpoints.
• Use in this repo: evaluate Pashto synthesis quality against curated text prompts.

🛠️ Coqui TTS Toolkit

• Repo: github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
• Why useful: open training/inference toolkit to fine-tune custom Pashto voices.
• Use in this repo: reproducible TTS training scripts and quality A/B experiments.

🧩 Integration Hints

• Keep text normalization consistent between ASR and TTS experiments.
• Pair objective metrics with human listening checks in benchmark notes.
• Document voice style, speaker metadata, and license provenance for every release.