Which language model performs best in Basque?
EvalEU: an open ranking that measures and compares how well local language models (Latxa, Kimu, Qwen, Gemma...) handle Basque.
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Antzoki-TTS: Adding Emotion and Acting Capabilities
Antzoki-TTS: a LoRA trained on top of DramaBox to generate emotional, expressive Basque synthetic voices guided by script-style prompts.
New Text-to-Speech Models for Basque: Maider, Antton and OmniVoice
New Basque text-to-speech models: HiTZ's Maider and Antton voices for Piper TTS, and OmniVoice, which can synthesize over 600 languages.
Nvidia Parakeet in Basque: fast and CPU-friendly
Nvidia Parakeet fine-tuned for Basque: a lightweight speech recognition model that runs fast on modest hardware and CPUs.
New Latxa VL Models
Testing HiTZ's small Latxa VL models: describing images in Basque and, above all, extracting text from them as OCR.