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I had pretty terrible results when I tried English -> Swahili I'm using the Huggingface M4T V2 spaces, it pretty much doesn't work most of the time and I just g

I had pretty terrible results when I tried English -> Swahili I'm using the Huggingface M4T V2 spaces, it pretty much doesn't work most of the time and I just get English back with a different voice, Expressive on the other hand only has a few languages it seems. It would be nice if they could layout what exactly is missing in terms of data to make a language work better, while the actual AI bit is out of reach for most of us maybe we could provide more data. There is also a 60 sec limit and wonder if this is HuggingFace limitation or Seamless?

yorwba 3y ago
> maybe we could provide more data. If you want to contribute by recording yourself speaking Swahili, https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/sw https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/sw is the place to go. Although Meta has access to much larger data sets, they nonetheless use Common Voice as a "known good" source. E.g. the paper on their SONAR speech encoder reports experiments on Common Voice data, coincidentally involving Swahili https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/sonar-sentence-level-multimodal-and-language-agnostic-representations/ https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/sonar-sentence-lev...