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What I learned building speech tech for a language with zero datasets

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The word was qara , "black". I fed it to an off-the-shelf TTS model, hit play, and got back a soft, polite, very Turkish kara . In Crimean Tatar къ and к are two separate sounds, and къ sits inside words we say every day: yoq , qız , vaqıt , qadar . Getting it wrong is not an accent. It is the mode…

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  1. 2026-09-10 00:44 · DEV Community — AI
    What I learned building speech tech for a language with zero datasets

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