---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - tr
pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
library_name: pocket-tts
datasets:
  - serdarcaglar/turkish-tts-audiobooks
base_model:
  - kyutai/pocket-tts
tags:
  - pocket-tts
  - tts
  - turkish
  - turkish-tts
  - speech
  - voice-cloning
---
# Pocket TTS Turkish — v0.1 Base

Turkish 24-layer Pocket TTS teacher model based on Kyutai Pocket TTS.

This is the **v0.1 base release**, focused on high-quality Turkish speech synthesis. It is intended both for direct Turkish TTS inference and as a base checkpoint for further fine-tuning and depth distillation.

## Model

* Architecture: Pocket TTS
* Language: Turkish
* Transformer depth: 24 layers
* Tokenizer: Turkish SentencePiece BPE
* Vocabulary size: 4,000
* Audio sample rate: 24 kHz
* Training checkpoint selected: 112,000 steps
* Generation temperature: 0.3

## Training data

The model was trained primarily on:

`serdarcaglar/turkish-tts-audiobooks`

A leakage-controlled training/dev/test split and additional preprocessing, normalization, alignment validation and filtering were applied before training.

## Usage

With Pocket TTS:

```bash
uvx pocket-tts generate \
  --config "hf://kaanhgunay/pocket-tts-tr/config.yaml@v0.1-base" \
  --voice "./voice.wav" \
  --text "Merhaba, bugün güzel bir gün." \
  --output-path output.wav
```

Replace `HF_USERNAME` with the repository owner's Hugging Face username.

## Strengths

The model performs well on standard Turkish text, including:

* fluent Turkish sentences
* long-form sentences
* Turkish morphology and long agglutinative words
* numbers and dates when appropriately normalized
* punctuation and natural pauses
* voice-conditioned speech generation

## Known limitations

### Foreign-language words

This release is primarily trained for Turkish.

English and other foreign-language words may be pronounced according to Turkish orthographic and phonetic patterns. Code-switching is **not considered a supported capability in v0.1**.

A future release is planned to improve Turkish-English code-switching while preserving Turkish quality.

### Beginning-of-generation artifact

A short transient or pronunciation artifact may occasionally be audible around the first syllable at the beginning of generated speech.

This behavior is being investigated separately from the acoustic/language quality of the model.

## Versioning

* **v0.1-base** — Turkish 24L base teacher, 112k steps
* Future releases may add code-switch improvements and distilled variants.

## Attribution

This model is derived from Kyutai Pocket TTS.

Training data attribution:

Serdar I. Çağlar, *Turkish TTS Audiobooks: a 2,724-hour Turkish read-speech corpus for text-to-speech*, Hugging Face, 2026.

## License

Model weights are released under CC BY 4.0.

Users are responsible for ensuring that voice cloning and generated speech are used lawfully and with appropriate consent.