| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: |
| - it |
| tags: |
| - text-to-speech |
| - tts |
| - piper |
| - italian |
| datasets: |
| - committa/serena-synthetic-it-27h |
| pipeline_tag: text-to-speech |
| --- |
| |
| # it_IT-serena-medium — Piper voice (Italian) |
| |
| Custom Italian voice for [Piper](https://github.com/rhasspy/piper), trained from the |
| `committa/serena-synthetic-it-27h` dataset (Qwen3-TTS synthetic voice). |
| |
| - Language: Italian (`it`) — neutral Standard Italian (no regional accent) |
| - Voice: **female** ("serena") |
| - Sample rate: 22050 Hz |
| - Quality: medium |
| - Files: `it_IT-serena-medium.onnx` + `it_IT-serena-medium.onnx.json` (must stay together) |
| |
| ## License |
| |
| CC-BY-4.0 — this model is derived from |
| [committa/serena-synthetic-it-27h](https://huggingface.co/datasets/committa/serena-synthetic-it-27h). |
| |
| ## Recommended inference settings (config A) |
| |
| The `.onnx.json` already embeds these defaults; the CLI uses them automatically. |
| They were chosen after stability testing: the Piper stock defaults (0.667 / 0.8) |
| tend to swallow phonemes (e.g. /r/ in "portato"). |
| |
| | Parameter | Value | |
| |-----------------|-------| |
| | noise_scale | 0.6 | |
| | length_scale | 1.0 | |
| | noise_w | 0.4 | |
| | sentence_silence| 0.2 | |
| |
| ## CLI usage |
| |
| ```sh |
| piper -m it_IT-serena-medium.onnx < text.txt |
| ``` |
| |
| Explicit overrides (optional): |
| |
| ```sh |
| piper -m it_IT-serena-medium.onnx --noise-scale 0.6 --noise-w 0.4 < text.txt |
| ``` |
| |
| ## Home Assistant (piper add-on) |
| |
| The Home Assistant add-on ignores the `.onnx.json` settings and always passes its |
| own options, whose defaults (noise_scale 0.667, noise_w 0.333) are NOT optimal for |
| this voice. For the best quality set in the add-on options: |
| |
| - `noise_scale`: **0.6** |
| - `length_scale`: 1.0 |
| - `noise_w`: **0.4** |
| - `sentence_silence`: 0.2 (optional; add-on default is 0.0) |
|
|
| ## Notes |
|
|
| - Pronunciation of rare vocabulary (<10 occurrences in training data) can be off; |
| fix with espeak-ng rules if needed. |
| - The training checkpoint (base for finetuning other Italian voices) is published at: |
| https://huggingface.co/committa/it_IT-serena-medium-checkpoint |
| |
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