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+language: "cs"
+tags:
+- Czech
+- SpeechT5
+- KKY
+- FAV
+license: "cc-by-nc-sa-4.0"
+---
+
+# SpeechT5-base-cs-tts
+This is a monolingual Czech SpeechT5 base model pre-trained from 120 thousand hours of Czech speech and a large Czech text corpus with 17.5B words.
+It has been released along with a paper **Zero-Shot vs. Few-Shot Multi-Speaker TTS Using Pre-trained Czech SpeechT5 Model** accepted to TSD2024 conference. 
+It is meant to be used as a starting checkpoint for Czech TTS fine-tuning.
+
+**Important note: This is only a pre-trained model, so it has not yet been trained for the TTS task.**
+
+See our paper for details.
+
+## Paper 
+The pre-print of our paper is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17167.
+
+## Citation
+If you find this model useful, please cite our paper:
+```
+@inproceedings{lehecka2024multispeakertts,
+  title = {{Zero-Shot vs. Few-Shot Multi-Speaker TTS Using Pre-trained Czech SpeechT5 Model}},
+  author = {
+    Jan Lehe\v{c}ka and
+    Zden\v{e}k Hanzl\'i\v{c}ek and
+    Jind\v{r}ich Matou\v{s}ek and
+    Daniel Tihelka
+  },
+  booktitle = {{Text, Speech, and Dialogue}},
+  publisher = {{Springer International Publishing}},
+  year = {2024},
+  note = {In press},
+  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17167},
+}
+```
+
+## Usage
+This is a TTS variant of the SpeechT5 model, 
+i.e., the input modality is text (processed via the text pre-net), 
+and the output modality is speech (processed via the speech post-net).
+The model has the same format as the [English speecht5-tts model](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/speecht5_tts) compatible with the [SpeechT5ForTextToSpeech class](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/speecht5#transformers.SpeechT5ForTextToSpeech).
+
+In order to use this model for text-to-speech, it must be [fine-tuned](https://huggingface.co/learn/audio-course/chapter6/fine-tuning) on labeled TTS data.
+
+The usage is the same as for the [English speecht5-tts model](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/speecht5_tts)
+
+## Related works