Toucan TTS: MIT licensed Text to Speech in 7000 languages! 🔥 The most multilingual open-source TTS model out there ⚡ Step 1: They built a text frontend that can turn text in any language from the ISO-639-3 list into language-agnostic articulatory features. Step 2: Then, pre-trained a speech synthesis to convert those features into speech for 462 languages. Step 3: Finally, they applied meta-learning to fill in the remaining languages for which they had no data. Bonus: They also open-source their dataset too! https://github.com/DigitalPhonetics/IMS-Toucan