MediaTek-Research / BreezyVoice

BreezyVoice

Playground ; GitHub ; Paper

BreezyVoice: Adapting TTS for Taiwanese Mandarin with Enhanced Polyphone Disambiguation -- Challenges and Insights

BreezyVoice is a voice-cloning text-to-speech system specifically adapted for Taiwanese Mandarin, highlighting phonetic control abilities via auxiliary 注音 (bopomofo) inputs. BreezyVoice is partially derived from CosyVoice

How to Run

Running from the GitHub instruction automatically downloads the model for you

You can also run the model from a specified local path by cloning the model

git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/MediaTek-Research/BreezyVoice-300M

then, you can use the model as specified in the run_inference.py script, providing the local model path using the model_path parameter.

If you like our work, please cite:

@article{hsu2025breezyvoice,
  title={BreezyVoice: Adapting TTS for Taiwanese Mandarin with Enhanced Polyphone Disambiguation--Challenges and Insights},
  author={Hsu, Chan-Jan and Lin, Yi-Cheng and Lin, Chia-Chun and Chen, Wei-Chih and Chung, Ho Lam and Li, Chen-An and Chen, Yi-Chang and Yu, Chien-Yu and Lee, Ming-Ji and Chen, Chien-Cheng and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.17790},
  year={2025}
}