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Cloning Voices for Endangered Languages: Building a Text-to-Speech Model for Asturian and Aragonese
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Cloning Voices for Endangered Languages: Building a Text-to-Speech Model for Asturian and Aragonese

Have you ever wanted to hear a computer speak in an accent you love, or in a language that's rarely supported by big tech? Today we’re releasing new experimental Text-to-Speech models for Asturian (ast) and Aragonese (an), two beautiful minority Romance language spoken by communities who almost never get access to modern speech technology.

JarbasAl
JarbasAlDecember 9, 2025
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