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.