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title: Speak Fongbe with Meta’s Multilingual TTS Model
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🔊 Speak Fongbe with Meta's Multilingual TTS Model

🗣️ Fongbe Text-to-Speech (TTS) Demo

Model: facebook/mms-tts-fon
Architecture: VITS (Vocoder-based TTS)
Language: Fon (ISO 639-3: fon)
License: CC-BY-NC 4.0
Powered by: Meta’s Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project


📖 Description (Fongbe)

Gbè elɔ xlɛ́ kpɔ́ndéwú nǔwlanwlán tɔn e è sɔ́ ɖ’ayǐ é ɖé nú Fongbe, gbè taji e è nɔ dó ɖò Benin kpo Togo sín akpáxwé ɖé lɛ kpo mɛ é.
Kpɔ́ndéwú: facebook/mms-tts-fon
Xɔgbigbá: VITS (TTS e jinjɔn Vocoder jí é)
Gbè: Fɔn (ISO 639-3: fon)
Acɛ: CC-ƉO-NC 4.0
Powered by: Mɛta sín xóɖiɖɔ gbè gègě tɔn (MMS)


🔍 Lee è nɔ zán gbɔn é

Wlan xógbe klewun ɖé dó Fon mɛ bo zín “Submit” bo na dó sè gbè e è xò kplé é. Modèle ɔ nɔ ɖè xóɖiɖɔ tɔ́n ɖò hwenu e é jɛ é, bo nɔ zán vocoder gbè gègě tɔn e è ko kplɔ́n ɖ’ayǐ é ɖé.


🌍 Gbè ɔ wú

Fon ɔ, Niger-Congo gbè wɛ bɔ gbɛtɔ́ livi 2 jɛji wɛ nɔ dó. È nɔ zán ɖò wemaxɔmɛ, xójlajla sín nǔ lɛ kpo xóɖɔɖókpɔ́ ayihɔngbe ayihɔngbe tɔn lɛ kpo mɛ, amɔ̌, è kpó ɖò xóɖiɖɔ sín nǔnywɛ xwitixwiti sín nǔ lɛ zán wɛ ganji ǎ.
Demo enɛ ɔ nɔ d’alɔ bɔ è nɔ sú dò enɛ gbɔn TTS ɖiɖó bɔ é nɔ bɔkun nú gbè Aflika tɔn e mɛ nǔɖokan lɛ ma sukpɔ́ ɖè ǎ lɛ é gblamɛ.


📖 Description (English)

This Space showcases a cutting-edge text-to-speech model for Fongbe, a major language spoken in Benin and parts of Togo.
Model: facebook/mms-tts-fon
Architecture: VITS (Vocoder-based TTS)
Language: Fon (ISO 639-3: fon)
License: CC-BY-NC 4.0
Powered by: Meta’s Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project


🔍 How to Use

Type a short sentence in Fon and press “Submit” to hear the synthesized voice.
The model outputs audio in real-time using a pretrained multilingual vocoder.


🌍 About the Language

Fon is a Niger-Congo language with over 2 million speakers.
It is used in education, media, and daily communication, yet remains underrepresented in speech technology.
This demo helps close that gap by making TTS more accessible for low-resource African languages.


🎤 Built with 🤗 Gradio & Meta MMS
👤 Demo created by Bonaventure F. P. Dossou