---
language:
- kk
arxiv: 2201.05771
tags:
- audio
- speech
task_categories:
- text-to-speech
---
## KazakhTTS: An Open-Source Kazakh Text-to-Speech Dataset

This repository contains dataset for training a Kazakh text-to-speech (TTS) model.  The project utilizes the KazakhTTS and KazakhTTS2 corpora and builds upon the ESPnet framework.  Pretrained models and vocoders are available.

**Paper**: [KazakhTTS2: Extending the Open-Source Kazakh TTS Corpus With More Data, Speakers, and Topics](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.578.pdf)

**GitHub Repository:** [https://github.com/IS2AI/Kazakh_TTS](https://github.com/IS2AI/Kazakh_TTS)

**Citation:**
```bibtex
@inproceedings{mussakhojayeva-etal-2022-kazakhtts2,
    title = "{K}azakh{TTS}2: Extending the Open-Source {K}azakh {TTS} Corpus With More Data, Speakers, and Topics",
    author = "Mussakhojayeva, Saida  and
      Khassanov, Yerbolat  and
      Varol, Huseyin Atakan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = jun,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.578/",
    pages = "5404--5411",
}
```