README.md

---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
base_model: OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-TTS-Local-Transformer
datasets:
- SPRINGLab/IndicTTS-English
tags:
- text-to-speech
- tts
- speech-synthesis
- indian-english
- indian-accent
- voice-agent
- voice-assistant
- customer-support
- conversational
- moss-tts
- lora
- audio
model-index:
- name: roxi-tts-pro
  results:
  - task:
      type: text-to-speech
      name: Text-to-Speech
    metrics:
    - type: speaker-similarity
      name: Speaker similarity (WavLM-SV, vs target)
      value: 0.97
    - type: wer
      name: Intelligibility WER (Whisper-base.en)
      value: 0.18
---

# Roxi-TTS Pro (1.7B): Indian-English text-to-speech

Roxi-TTS Pro is a 1.7B text-to-speech model that speaks in a clear, natural Indian-English
accent. It is built for customer-support calls and website voice assistants, and it is the
highest-quality voice in the Roxi line. If you need an Indian-English voice that sounds
warm, professional, and telephony-ready, start here.

## Why Roxi-TTS Pro

- Natural Indian-English accent, not a generic English voice with an accent bolted on.
- Highest intelligibility in the Roxi line: word error rate 0.18 (Whisper-base.en), and
  strong speaker consistency 0.97 (WavLM-SV).
- Stable generation with fewer cut-offs than the smaller models, so most lines are usable
  on the first try.
- 24 kHz output, single consistent branded voice.
- Apache-2.0 base models, so it is commercially permissive end to end.

## Quick facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Base model | OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-TTS-Local-Transformer (1.7B, Apache-2.0) |
| Audio tokenizer | OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Audio-Tokenizer (Apache-2.0) |
| Method | LoRA (PEFT), r=32, alpha=64, merged into the base weights |
| Training data | About 4 hours, single IndicTTS-English speaker, 2371 clips |
| Output | 24 kHz mono |
| Speaker similarity | 0.97 (WavLM-SV cosine to held-out target) |
| Intelligibility WER | 0.18 (Whisper-base.en on generated audio) |
| Speed | Real-time factor about 2.5 on a 16 GB GPU (best for offline or premium audio) |

## Install

Built for transformers 4.57.1. Install the MOSS-TTS repository so the model class is importable.

```bash
pip install "transformers==4.57.1" torch torchaudio soundfile librosa peft
git clone https://github.com/OpenMOSS/MOSS-TTS.git
```

## Quick start

```python
import sys, torch, soundfile as sf
sys.path.insert(0, "MOSS-TTS")  # cloned repo, provides moss_tts_local
from transformers import AutoProcessor
from moss_tts_local.modeling_moss_tts import MossTTSDelayModel

repo = "IOTEverythin/roxi-tts-pro"
device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
dtype = torch.bfloat16 if device == "cuda" else torch.float32

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(repo, trust_remote_code=True)
processor.audio_tokenizer = processor.audio_tokenizer.to(device)

model = MossTTSDelayModel.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype=dtype, attn_implementation="sdpa"
).to(device).eval()

text = "Welcome to Voz Vox. How may I help you today?"
instruction = "Speak naturally in a clear, conversational Indian-English style."

conv = [[processor.build_user_message(text=text, instruction=instruction)]]
batch = processor(conv, mode="generation")
out = model.generate(
    input_ids=batch["input_ids"].to(device),
    attention_mask=batch["attention_mask"].to(device),
    max_new_tokens=4096, do_sample=True, temperature=0.9,
)
audio = processor.decode(out)[0].audio_codes_list[0]
sf.write("out.wav", audio.float().cpu().numpy(), processor.model_config.sampling_rate)
```

Tips for reliable output: write numbers as words, spell brand names phonetically (for
example Voz Vox), avoid raw abbreviations, and keep sentences to about twelve words.
Generation is autoregressive and can occasionally under-generate, so if a clip is short,
generate two or three times and keep the longest, then trim leading and trailing silence.
Do not raise max_new_tokens far above the default, since the codec decode grows
quadratically in memory.

## Which Roxi voice should I use

| Model | Base | Best for | Speaker sim | WER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| roxi-tts-pro (this) | MOSS-TTS-Local 1.7B | Highest quality, offline or premium audio | 0.97 | 0.18 |
| roxi-tts-v3.1 | MOSS-TTS-Nano 0.1B | Real-time, live voice agents | 0.96 | 0.33 |

Use Roxi-TTS Pro when quality matters most and you can pre-render or afford a GPU. Use the
smaller 0.1B voice when you need real-time, low-latency speech for a live agent.

## Performance and deployability

Measured on a single 16 GB GPU (bf16, SDPA attention): real-time factor about 2.5, that is
roughly 13 seconds of compute per 5 seconds of audio, with peak GPU memory about 13.4 GB.
This makes Roxi-TTS Pro well suited to offline or pre-rendered speech and to a premium
quality tier. For live, low-latency turn taking, prefer the 0.1B roxi-tts-v3.1, or optimize
this model with quantization, torch.compile, a faster GPU, or by caching common phrases.

## Intended use

Indian-English text to speech for customer-support calls and website voice assistants:
natural, warm or professional, and telephony aware. Single-speaker branded voice.

## Limitations

- The training data is read speech, so delivery is somewhat formal rather than fully
  conversational.
- Not real-time on a single consumer GPU. See Performance.
- Stochastic under-generation. Use the retry approach and keep sentences short.
- Style and emotion control are not reliable. The voice is neutral. For emotion, see
  roxi-tts-emotion.
- Requires transformers 4.57.1.

## License and attribution

Released under Apache-2.0. Built on MOSS-TTS-Local-Transformer (Apache-2.0) and its audio
tokenizer (Apache-2.0). Training data is the IIT-Madras Indic TTS English set accessed via
SPRINGLab/IndicTTS-English. The dataset license requires the following notice:

COPYRIGHT 2016 TTS Consortium, TDIL, Meity, represented by Hema A. Murthy and S. Umesh,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

## Responsible use

This voice is derived from a real dataset speaker. Do not use it to impersonate real people
or for fraud, social engineering, or deception. Disclose AI-generated audio where required by
law or policy. Provided as is, without warranty.