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FastThaiG2P: Lightning-fast Thai Grapheme-to-phoneme Conversion for Voice Agent Pipelines
arXiv:2608.12814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: FastThaiG2P provides sub-millisecond Thai grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for text-to-speech pipelines (International Phonetic Alphabet and Kokoro-TTS co
arXiv:2608.12814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: FastThaiG2P provides sub-millisecond Thai grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for text-to-speech pipelines (International Phonetic Alphabet and Kokoro-TTS conventions) using a PyThaiNLP-tokenized, extensible dictionary and normalization rules for common Central Thai speech. The approach achieves an average latency of 0.15 ms per utterance on a benchmark of 27,242 synthetically generated utterances, of which 30% is spent on tokenization, 12% on normalization, and 58% on out-of-vocabulary fallbacks (0.5% OOV rate). To demonstrate its effectiveness, we used FastThaiG2P to phonemize Som-TTS, an open dataset containing 20 hours of grapheme-and-audio pairs, then trained an 82M-parameter StyleTTS 2 model based on a Kokoro-TTS recipe. The resulting model vocalizes intelligible Thai speech suitable for prototyping and development at 0.25 real-time factor (4x real-time) with ONNX inference on CPU.
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Source: arXiv cs.CL | 2026-08-14