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+license: apache-2.0
+language:
+- ro
+pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
+---
+
+# Romanian TTS Model (Finetuned)
+
+This is a **FastPitch** model finetuned for the Romanian language. It was trained **(from scratch)** on the SWARA dataset and finetuned on specific speaker samples (BEA/SGS).
+
+## Model Details
+- **Architecture:** FastPitch
+- **Language:** Romanian (ro)
+- **Base Dataset:** The SWARA Speech Corpus (18k samples)
+- **Base Model:** trained on 16 speakers (includes both male & female voices, balanced data). The base model components can be found in the 'swara' directory.
+- **Finetuning:** finetuned on 2 speakers (bas and sgs). Their checkpoints can be found in the 'bas' and 'sgs' directories.
+- **Sample rate:** 22050Hz
+
+## Usage instructions
+- **Included in the official repository of VITS:** https://github.com/NVIDIA/DeepLearningExamples/tree/master/PyTorch/SpeechSynthesis/FastPitch
+- **Our repository on finetuning various TTS models for the Romanian language:** https://gitlab.com/opentts_ragman/OpenTTS
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use this model, please cite the original FastPitch paper and the SWARA dataset:
+
+```bibtex
+@INPROCEEDINGS{fastpitch,
+  author={Łańcucki, Adrian},
+  booktitle={Proc. of ICASSP}, 
+  title={{Fastpitch: Parallel Text-to-Speech with Pitch Prediction}}, 
+  year={2021},
+  volume={},
+  number={},
+  pages={6588-6592},
+  keywords={Frequency synthesizers;Frequency modulation;Conferences;Semantics;Predictive models;Real-time systems;Acoustics;text-to-speech;speech synthesis;fundamental frequency},
+  doi={10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9413889}}
+
+@inproceedings{stan_sped2017,
+  author = {Stan, Adriana and Dinescu, Florina and Tiple, Cristina and Meza, Serban and Orza, Bogdan and Chirila, Magdalena and Giurgiu, Mircea},
+  title = {{The SWARA Speech Corpus: A Large Parallel Romanian Read Speech Dataset}},
+  year = 2017,
+  address = {Bucharest, Romania},
+  booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD)}},
+  month = {July, 6-9},
+}
+```
+
+If you use this specific finetuned checkpoint in your work, please cite it as follows:
+
+```bibtex
+@ARTICLE{11269795,
+  author={Răgman, Teodora and Bogdan Stânea, Adrian and Cucu, Horia and Stan, Adriana},
+  journal={IEEE Access}, 
+  title={How Open Is Open TTS? A Practical Evaluation of Open Source TTS Tools}, 
+  year={2025},
+  volume={13},
+  number={},
+  pages={203415-203428},
+  keywords={Computer architecture;Training;Text to speech;Spectrogram;Decoding;Computational modeling;Codecs;Predictive models;Acoustics;Low latency communication;Speech synthesis;open tools;evaluation;computational requirements;TTS adaptation;text-to-speech;objective measures;listening test;Romanian},
+  doi={10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3637322}}
+
+```