BanglaBox: A Phonetically-Balanced Corpus and Data-Efficient Foundation-Model Adaptation for Bangla Text-to-Speech with Zero-Shot Voice Cloning
This work contributes a phonetically- and gender-balanced two-tier Bangladeshi Bangla corpus balanced via a tiered Jensen-Shannon divergence objective over conjunct clusters (juktakkhor), together with three fine-tuning changes: a merge-consistent tokenizer extension, Bangla text normalization, and a prompt-masked dual...
Emtiaz Uddin Ahmed, Araf Mahmud, S. Hossain et al.
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