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French voice (FF Alpha) has more of a Quebec French accent than a French French accent
Can you confirm whether the speaker in SIWIS has a Quebec-French accent instead of French-French? https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/2353
SIWIS is a CC-BY single-speaker French dataset listed in the Data tab of the Space.
Here is a sample if you can't be bothered to download the dataset:
I don't speak any French, so will defer to your opinion here.
It does sound like the training sample you provided is indeed French-French sounding.
But the output of the model does have a weird accent that is reminiscing of the Quebec accent (to my french ears). Maybe it's an artefact from the training?
Ah, chalk it up as a TODO then to improve future versions of the mode.
The French voice is undertrained because it was only added for a handful of epochs, and it is also the only language in v0.23 that is just represented by a single voice, so weaker performance is not shocking.
Machine learning success generally boils down to Compute, Data, & Algorithms. You could argue that from a volume standpoint Kokoro is seriously lacking in Compute and Data.