kevin zingg

swiss-tts

A Text-to-Speech model trained on Swiss German dialects

overview

Developed a custom TTS model to tackle the unique challenge of Swiss German dialects, which traditionally lack standardized text-to-speech solutions.

tech stack

PythonPyTorchTransformer ArchitectureCUDAAudio Processing

development

Late night ML development setup

Late night training sessions and model fine-tuning

audio samples

Zürich dialect - 'Halli hallo, was lauft bi dier?'

Bern dialect - 'Äuä, das isch guet'

challenges & learnings

  • Handling dialect variations and non-standardized pronunciations
  • Training data collection and preprocessing for Swiss German
  • Model optimization for real-time inference