ZLSCompLing/CoquiTTS-Maxine

Coqui TTS - Maxine (Luxembourgish Female Voice)

A VITS-based text-to-speech model for Luxembourgish, featuring a synthetic female voice.

Model Description

This model was trained using the Coqui TTS framework on Luxembourgish speech data from the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire (LOD) example sentences.

"Maxine" is a synthetic female Luxembourgish voice created by modulating the original LOD recordings to produce a distinct female voice character.

Model Details

• —Architecture: VITS
• —Language: Luxembourgish (lb)
• —Speaker: Single speaker (female, synthetic)
• —Sample Rate: 22050 Hz
• —Checkpoint: ~90,000 steps
• —License: MIT

Usage

Note: Text should be lowercased before synthesis. Additional text normalization may be required.

import torch
import scipy.io.wavfile as wavfile
from TTS.utils.synthesizer import Synthesizer

# Load the model
synthesizer = Synthesizer(
    tts_checkpoint="path/to/coqui-tts-maxine.pth",
    tts_config_path="path/to/config.json",
    use_cuda=torch.cuda.is_available()
)

# Generate speech
wav = synthesizer.tts("moien, wéi geet et dir?")

# Save to file
wavfile.write("output.wav", 22050, wav)

Technical Specifications

Citation

If you use this model, please cite:

@misc{zls2025coquimaxine,
  title={Coqui TTS Maxine - Luxembourgish Female Voice},
  author={Zenter fir d'Lëtzebuerger Sprooch},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  url={https://huggingface.co/ZLSCompLing/CoquiTTS-Maxine}
}

Acknowledgments

Developed by Zenter fir d'Lëtzebuerger Sprooch.

Voice data sourced from the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire (LOD). The original audio files are available via the LOD linguistic data on data.public.lu, which provides an XML file containing example sentence IDs. Audio files can be accessed at:

https://lod.lu/uploads/examples/AAC/{folder}/{id}.m4a

where {folder} is the first 2 characters of {id}.

This model is used in Sproochmaschinn, a Luxembourgish speech processing platform.