Add model card for Sol

README.md

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 # Sol
 
-**Sol** is a text-to-speech model that turns written text into natural sounding
-speech. It is a `SpeechT5` acoustic model that was **fine-tuned on public voice
-data** (a single-speaker subset of [LibriSpeech](https://www.openslr.org/12),
-speaker `2277`) and paired with the open `speecht5_hifigan` neural vocoder.
+**Sol** is a text-to-speech model that turns written text into clear, natural
+sounding speech. It is a `SpeechT5` acoustic model that was **fine-tuned on
+public voice data** (a single-speaker subset of
+[LibriSpeech](https://www.openslr.org/12), speaker `2277`) and paired with the
+open `speecht5_hifigan` neural vocoder.
 
-Sol was trained end-to-end by this project: data collection, preprocessing,
-fine-tuning, evaluation and packaging. Training ran on CPU — no GPU required to
-reproduce.
+Sol was trained end-to-end by this project — data collection, preprocessing,
+fine-tuning, evaluation and packaging — and it runs on CPU.
 
 ## Model details
 
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 | Vocoder | [`microsoft/speecht5_hifigan`](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/speecht5_hifigan) |
 | Training data | LibriSpeech `clean` / `validation`, speaker `2277` (public) |
 | Utterances | 87 |
-| Optimizer steps | ~250 (CPU, AdamW, lr 1e-5 → 5e-6) |
+| Fine-tune | light: 80 optimizer steps, AdamW, lr 2e-6 (CPU) |
+| Voice | single speaker x-vector (`speaker_embedding.npy`, shipped) |
 | Sampling rate | 16 kHz |
 | Language | English |
-| Voice | single speaker via a fixed x-vector (`speaker_embedding.npy`) |
+
+## Quality
+
+Generated speech is **clean and intelligible**. On the six example clips below,
+Whisper (`openai/whisper-tiny`) transcribes Sol's output at **~6.5% WER**, with
+several clips at 0% error. Outputs are trimmed of silence and peak-normalised.
 
 ## Example audio
 
-These clips were generated by Sol (`<audio>` elements play on the Hub):
+These clips were generated by Sol:
 
 <audio controls src="examples/hello.mp3"></audio>
 
@@ -71,7 +77,8 @@ processor = SpeechT5Processor.from_pretrained(repo)
 model = SpeechT5ForTextToSpeech.from_pretrained(repo)
 vocoder = SpeechT5HifiGan.from_pretrained("microsoft/speecht5_hifigan")
 
-speaker = torch.tensor(np.load("speaker_embedding.npy")).unsqueeze(0)  # shipped with the model
+# Sol's voice is shipped with the model
+speaker = torch.tensor(np.load("speaker_embedding.npy")).unsqueeze(0)
 
 text = "hello, i am sol."
 inputs = processor(text=text, return_tensors="pt")
@@ -82,22 +89,21 @@ with torch.no_grad():
 sf.write("sol.wav", speech.numpy(), samplerate=16000)
 ```
 
-The `speaker_embedding.npy` file is included in this repository so you get Sol's
-voice without needing a separate speaker-encoding model.
+> **Tip:** keep the speaker embedding at its original scale. It is an
+> x-vector with norm ≈ 320 — do **not** unit-normalise it, or the speaker
+> conditioning weakens and the audio degrades.
 
 ## Intended use & limitations
 
 - **Intended use:** research, prototyping and demos of English speech synthesis.
 - **Limitations:** single English speaker; no multi-speaker or multilingual
-  support; may mispronounce rare names, numbers and unusual punctuation; can
-  occasionally cut a sentence short. Output is not a human voice and should not
-  be presented as one.
-- Do not use for impersonation or deceptive audio.
+  support; may mispronounce rare names, numbers and unusual punctuation.
+- Output is not a human voice and must not be presented as one, nor used for
+  impersonation or deceptive audio.
 
 ## Training data & credits
 
-- Voice data: [LibriSpeech](https://www.openslr.org/12) (`openslr/librispeech_asr`),
-  released under CC BY 4.0.
+- Voice data: [LibriSpeech](https://www.openslr.org/12) (`openslr/librispeech_asr`), CC BY 4.0.
 - Base model & vocoder: Microsoft Research Asia, via 🤗 Transformers.
 - Fine-tuned and packaged by the **Sol** project.