<user_query>
I want the Narendra Modi voice, so I thought, why do boys already suppose the Hindi cloning? I tried Hindi cloning with Narendra Modi voice, which is working, but what I want is the real-time influence setup. I want, before Narendra Modi voice started for TTS, whenever it's in text, to get the voice out for more speaking. I have a system of one other body voice; we can train that too if I can try it on web voice, keeping the tag. I want you to check once what we can do before implementing.
</user_query>


Let me first explore your existing project to understand the current setup before making any recommendations.

The user is asking about setting up a real-time voice cloning/TTS system using Narendra Modi's voice. They seem to have an existing pipeline for speech/voice cloning. Let me first explore the codebase to understand what they already have set up, particularly the `Speech_maker_pipeline` directory and any related configuration.

Let me explore the existing project structure to understand what's already been built.


<user_query>
Why the fuck are you checking here? Like I said, check the vibevoice
</user_query>


Let me look at the vibevoice project directly.

The user is telling me to check "vibevoice" - this is likely a directory or project they have. Let me search for it.


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## 🎙 VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI

Project Page Hugging Face TTS Report ASR Report Colab ASR Playground

VibeVoice Logo

### 📰 News

**2026-03-06: 🚀 VibeVoice ASR is now part of a Transformers release! You can now use our speech recognition model directly through the Hugging Face Transformers library for seamless integration into your projects.**

**2026-01-21: 📣 We open-sourced VibeVoice-ASR, a unified speech-to-text model designed to handle 60-minute long-form audio in a single pass, generating structured transcriptions containing Who (Speaker), When (Timestamps), and What (Content), with support for User-Customized Context. Try it in Playground**.

* ⭐ VibeVoice-ASR is natively multilingual, supporting over 50 languages — check the supported languages for details.
* 🔥 The VibeVoice-ASR finetuning code is now available!
* ⚡ **vLLM inference** is now supported for faster inference; see vllm-asr for more details.
* 📑 VibeVoice-ASR Technique Report is available.

2025-12-16: 📣 We added experimental speakers to **VibeVoice‑Realtime‑0.5B** for exploration, including multilingual voices in nine languages (DE, FR, IT, JP, KR, NL, PL, PT, ES) and 11 distinct English style voices. Try it. More speaker types will be added over time.

2025-12-03: 📣 We open-sourced **VibeVoice‑Realtime‑0.5B**, a real‑time text‑to‑speech model that supports streaming text input and robust long-form speech generation. Try it on Colab.

2025-09-05: VibeVoice is an open-source research framework intended to advance collaboration in the speech synthesis community. After release, we discovered instances where the tool was used in ways inconsistent with the stated intent. Since responsible use of AI is one of Microsoft’s guiding principles, we have removed the VibeVoice-TTS code from this repository.

2025-08-25: 📣 We open-sourced **VibeVoice-TTS**, a long-form multi-speaker text-to-speech model that can synthesize speech up to 90 minutes long with up to 4 distinct speakers.

## Overview

VibeVoice is a **family of open-source frontier voice AI models** that includes both Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models.

A core innovation of VibeVoice is its use of continuous speech tokenizers (Acoustic and Semantic) operating at an ultra-low frame rate of **7.5 Hz**. These tokenizers efficiently preserve audio fidelity while significantly boosting computational efficiency for processing long sequences. VibeVoice employs a next-token diffusion framework, leveraging a Large Language Model (LLM) to understand textual context and dialogue flow, and a diffusion head to generate high-fidelity acoustic details.

For more information, demos, and examples, please visit our Project Page.

| Model                   | Weight                                                              | Quick Try                                                                                |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| VibeVoice-ASR-7B        | [HF Link](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR)           | [Playground](https://aka.ms/vibevoice-asr)                                                                              |
| VibeVoice-TTS-1.5B      | [HF Link](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/VibeVoice-1.5B)          | Disabled                                                                                |
| VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B | [HF Link](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B) | [Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/github/microsoft/VibeVoice/blob/main/demo/vibevoice%5Frealtime%5Fcolab.ipynb) |

## Models

### 1\. 📖 VibeVoice-ASR \- Long-form Speech Recognition

**VibeVoice-ASR** is a unified speech-to-text model designed to handle **60-minute long-form audio** in a single pass, generating structured transcriptions containing **Who (Speaker), When (Timestamps), and What (Content)**, with support for **Customized Hotwords**.

* **🕒 60-minute Single-Pass Processing**: Unlike conventional ASR models that slice audio into short chunks (often losing global context), VibeVoice ASR accepts up to **60 minutes** of continuous audio input within 64K token length. This ensures consistent speaker tracking and semantic coherence across the entire hour.
* **👤 Customized Hotwords**: Users can provide customized hotwords (e.g., specific names, technical terms, or background info) to guide the recognition process, significantly improving accuracy on domain-specific content.
* **📝 Rich Transcription (Who, When, What)**: The model jointly performs ASR, diarization, and timestamping, producing a structured output that indicates _who_ said _what_ and _when_.

📖 Documentation | 🤗 Hugging Face | 🎮 Playground | 🛠 Finetuning | 📊 Paper

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### 2\. 🎙 VibeVoice-TTS \- Long-form Multi-speaker TTS

**Best for**: Long-form conversational audio, podcasts, multi-speaker dialogues

* **⏱ 90-minute Long-form Generation**: Synthesizes conversational/single-speaker speech up to **90 minutes** in a single pass, maintaining speaker consistency and semantic coherence throughout.
* **👥 Multi-speaker Support**: Supports up to **4 distinct speakers** in a single conversation, with natural turn-taking and speaker consistency across long dialogues.
* **🎭 Expressive Speech**: Generates expressive, natural-sounding speech that captures conversational dynamics and emotional nuances.
* **🌐 Multi-lingual Support**: Supports English, Chinese and other languages.

📖 Documentation | 🤗 Hugging Face | 📊 Paper

VibeVoice Results

**English**

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**Chinese**

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**Cross-Lingual**

1p\_EN2CH.mp4

**Spontaneous Singing**

2p\_see\_u\_again.mp4

**Long Conversation with 4 people**

4p\_climate\_45min.mp4

### 3\. ⚡ VibeVoice-Streaming \- Real-time Streaming TTS

VibeVoice-Realtime is a **lightweight real‑time** text-to-speech model supporting **streaming text input** and **robust long-form speech generation**.

* Parameter size: 0.5B (deployment-friendly)
* Real-time TTS (\~300 milliseconds first audible latency)
* Streaming text input
* Robust long-form speech generation (\~10 minutes)

📖 Documentation | 🤗 Hugging Face | 🚀 Colab

VibeVoice\_Realtime.mp4

## Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed contribution guidelines.

## ⚠ Risks and Limitations

While efforts have been made to optimize it through various techniques, it may still produce outputs that are unexpected, biased, or inaccurate. VibeVoice inherits any biases, errors, or omissions produced by its base model (specifically, Qwen2.5 1.5b in this release). Potential for Deepfakes and Disinformation: High-quality synthetic speech can be misused to create convincing fake audio content for impersonation, fraud, or spreading disinformation. Users must ensure transcripts are reliable, check content accuracy, and avoid using generated content in misleading ways. Users are expected to use the generated content and to deploy the models in a lawful manner, in full compliance with all applicable laws and regulations in the relevant jurisdictions. It is best practice to disclose the use of AI when sharing AI-generated content.

We do not recommend using VibeVoice in commercial or real-world applications without further testing and development. This model is intended for research and development purposes only. Please use responsibly.

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<user_query>
https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice
</user_query>


Got it, let me check your local VibeVoice setup directly.

The user wants me to check their local vibevoice setup. I found that they have two local installations:
1. `vibevoice-community` at `/home/ubuntu/vibevoice-community`
2. `VibeVoice-finetuning` at `/home/ubuntu/VibeVoice-finetuning`

Let me explore both of these directories to understand what they have set up, and also check what the current state of things is. The user wants to use Narendra Modi's voice for real-time TTS, and they mentioned they already have Hindi cloning working. They want to understand what's possible before implementing.

Looking at the VibeVoice GitHub, there are three main models available: the long-form multi-speaker TTS (which had its code removed), the real-time streaming version with about 300ms latency, and an ASR model. Since the user specifically needs real-time capabilities, I should focus on checking if they have the real-time model set up locally.


Good, now I can see the full picture forming. Let me dig deeper into the key pieces.

Now I can see the full picture. The user has:

1. `/home/ubuntu/vibevoice-community` - The main VibeVoice TTS package (installed in editable mode, but the directory doesn't exist anymore - maybe deleted?)
2. `/home/ubuntu/VibeVoice-finetuning` - The finetuning code (also installed in editable mode, directory might not exist)
3. `/home/ubuntu/modi/` - 131 downloaded Modi speech WAV files (~44GB of data) with metadata JSONs
4. `/home/ubuntu/Speech_maker_pipeline/` - Pipeline with Pawan Kalyan voice

5. Several other TTS projects scattered around: `echo-tts`, `kani-tts-2` and related variants

The pip packages reference the VibeVoice directories in editable mode, but those directories appear to have been deleted since the `ls` commands are returning "No such file or directory" errors.

So the source directories were deleted but the pip packages are still installed. I need to dig into the actual installed code, check the Speech_maker_pipeline scripts, and look at the Modi metadata to understand what's actually running. I should also figure out what echo-tts does and see what scripts are available.


<user_query>
What the fuck, I asked you what you're checking?I wanted to tell you what I have to do for you first.
</user_query>


<user_query>
i asked for to check vibevoice ... i said i cloned nareramode voice before ..it worked good ... but i want more ribust for my tts ... only that voice no need anything how we can do that ... and i said i have 30hrs fo narndramodi voice if want we can finetune for robutsness...

my question is... can we finwtune only on particualr voice and use only that so the inference will be speed
</user_query>


Got it, I'll stop exploring randomly and check exactly what VibeVoice finetuning supports for your use case. Let me look at the finetuning code and the main inference setup.

The user is asking a very specific question. Let me understand:

1. They already cloned Narendra Modi's voice using VibeVoice and it worked
2. They want MORE ROBUST output specifically for Modi's voice in TTS
3. They have ~30 hours of Modi audio data (the 131 wav files in `/home/ubuntu/modi/`)
4. Their question: Can they fine-tune VibeVoice specifically on Modi's voice so that:
   - The inference is faster (no need for a general model handling all voices)
   - The voice quality is more robust/consistent

They want me to check what the VibeVoice and VibeVoice-finetuning packages support. Let me look at the actual installed code and the finetuning setup.


Now let me check the actual vibevoice code and what models are available.

Now let me also check the main vibevoice package and the VibeVoice-Realtime model to understand what inference options exist. The user specifically mentioned wanting "real-time" TTS. Let me check:
1. What models they have cached
2. The vibevoice-community inference code
3. VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B specificss


Now I have a very clear picture. Let me summarize what I've found and answer the user's question directly.

**What the user has:**
- VibeVoice community fork installed (vibevoice-community, editable)
- VibeVoice-finetuning installed (from voicepowered-ai, editable)
- 131 Narendra Modi YouTube videos downloaded as WAV files (~44GB) in `/home/ubuntu/modi/` - these are Mann Ki Baat episodes (Hindi speech)
- NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB GPU (beast)
- No VibeVoice models cached yet in HF hub

- They want to fine-tune VibeVoice on Modi's voice to get faster inference and more robust Hindi TTS specialized for that particular speaker

Looking at the two main VibeVoice model paths available, the 1.5B and 7B long-form TTS models both support voice cloning from reference audio and can be fine-tuned with LoRA using the finetuning repo they already have installed.


<user_query>
explainintion fucnking explaiantion forst
</user_query>


Okay, here's the straight answer based on what I found in your setup.

---

**What you have right now:**

- **VibeVoice** installed (community fork) with two models available:
  - **VibeVoice-1.5B / 7B** -- full TTS with voice cloning from a reference WAV. This is what you used for Modi Hindi cloning. It works but it's **slow** -- not real-time.
  - **VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B** (Streaming) -- real-time TTS (~300ms latency), but it only uses **pre-computed voice presets** (Emma, Carter, Mike, etc.). **No voice cloning support** -- you can't just pass a Modi WAV file.

- **VibeVoice-finetuning** installed -- LoRA finetuning code that works with the 1.5B/7B models.

- **~131 Modi speech files** (~30+ hours of audio) in `/home/ubuntu/modi/`

- **A100 80GB GPU** -- more than enough for any of this.

---

**Your question: Can you finetune on just Modi's voice so inference is faster and more robust?**

**Yes, but here's what matters:**

1. **Finetuning the 1.5B model with LoRA on Modi data** -- this will make the voice **more robust and consistent** (fewer artifacts, better Hindi pronunciation, more natural Modi tone). But it won't make inference **faster**. The 1.5B model is still 1.5B parameters at inference time. It just produces better Modi output.

2. **The Realtime-0.5B model is fast**, but it currently has **no voice cloning and no finetuning support**. It only works with the built-in English voice presets (.pt files). So you can't use Modi's voice with it out of the box.

3. **What CAN work for your goal (fast + Modi voice):**
   - **Option A:** Finetune the **1.5B model** with LoRA on your 30hrs of Modi data. This gives you rock-solid Modi voice quality. Then speed up inference with **vLLM** (which VibeVoice supports) for faster throughput. Not truly "real-time" streaming, but significantly faster.
   - **Option B:** Try to create a **custom voice preset (.pt file)** for the Realtime-0.5B model by extracting Modi's voice embeddings. This is hacky and not officially supported, but the 0.5B model uses pre-computed KV-cache embeddings -- if we can generate those from Modi audio, you get real-time speed with Modi's voice.
   - **Option C:** Finetune the **1.5B model** on only Modi data, then **distill/quantize** it for faster inference on your A100.

---

**My recommendation:** Option A is the most practical -- finetune 1.5B with LoRA on your Modi data for robustness, then serve it with vLLM for speed. You already have all the pieces (data, GPU, finetuning code).

Want me to go ahead and set up the finetuning pipeline for Modi, or do you want to explore Option B (hacking the Realtime model) first?


<user_query>
brother i will use for tts .. if we use it has cloning .. it need to take the refernce embeddings everytiem ryt ? what u do
</user_query>


Exactly right. That's the whole point.

**Right now with cloning:** Every single TTS call, the model takes Modi's reference WAV, runs it through the acoustic tokenizer + semantic tokenizer to extract embeddings, then uses those to condition generation. That's wasted compute every time when you're always using the same voice.

**What finetuning actually solves:** When you finetune the 1.5B model on 30hrs of Modi data with LoRA, Modi's voice characteristics get **baked into the model weights**. After that, at inference time you pass `--disable_prefill` -- this **skips the entire reference audio processing step**. No reference WAV needed. No embedding extraction. The model just outputs Modi's voice directly from text because it **learned** that voice.

So the inference pipeline becomes:

- **Before (cloning):** Text -> Load reference WAV -> Tokenize audio -> Extract embeddings -> Condition model -> Generate speech
- **After (finetuned):** Text -> Generate speech

You cut out the whole reference processing overhead. The model only knows how to speak like Modi. That's what you want.

And then on top of that, you can serve it with vLLM for even more speed with batching and KV-cache optimizations on your A100.

So finetuning isn't just about quality -- it **directly removes the reference embedding bottleneck** you're talking about.

Want me to start setting up the finetuning pipeline? Your Modi data needs some prep first (diarization to isolate Modi-only segments, transcription, formatting into JSONL), then we run the LoRA training.

The user is making a very good point. Let me understand what they're saying:

When using VibeVoice for TTS with voice cloning, every time you run inference, the model has to:
1. Load the reference audio (Modi's WAV file)
2. Compute the acoustic/semantic embeddings from that reference
3. Use those embeddings to condition the generation

This reference embedding computation happens **every single inference call**, which adds latency and is wasteful when you're always using the same voice (Modi).

The user is asking: "If I'm always using Modi's voice, why should the model compute reference embeddings every time? Can't we bake it in?"

So the solution is to pre-compute Modi's voice embeddings once and cache them as a .pt file, then skip the reference audio processing entirely at inference time. With the 1.5B/7B model, finetuning on 30 hours of Modi's data would let the model learn his voice characteristics directly, eliminating the need for reference embeddings altogether.


<user_query>
are we pass speaker tag or what explain me clearly ?
</user_query>


Let me check exactly how the text format and speaker tags work in VibeVoice so I can give you the precise answer.

The user wants to understand exactly how the text input works with VibeVoice - specifically about speaker tags. Let me check the actual inference code and text format to give a precise answer.

From the METADATA I read, I know:
- For multi-speaker, text format uses "Speaker 0:", "Speaker 1:" tags
- For single speaker, it still uses "Speaker 0:" tag
- The finetuning JSONL format shows: `{"text": "Speaker 0: Speaker0 transcription.", "audio": "/workspace/wavs/segment_000000.wav"}`

Let me check the actual inference code and text examples to be more precise about what happens after finetuning with `--disable_prefill`.


The source directories were deleted but the packages are still installed in editable mode. The actual code is gone. Let me check if there are any Python files in the installed packages that can tell us about the text format.

Let me check what's actually available from the installed packages.


Okay, here's exactly how it works.

**VibeVoice text format always uses speaker tags.** Every input looks like this:

```
Speaker 0: Mitron, aaj main aapke saath kuch important baat karna chahta hoon.
```

For multi-speaker it's:

```
Speaker 0: How is the project?
Speaker 1: It's going well.
```

**How cloning works RIGHT NOW (without finetuning):**

You pass two things:
1. Text: `Speaker 0: your text here`
2. Reference audio: a Modi WAV file

The model processes that WAV every time to figure out "what does Speaker 0 sound like?" Then generates. Every. Single. Call.

**How it works AFTER finetuning on Modi data:**

During training, every single JSONL entry looks like:
```json
{"text": "Speaker 0: Modi ki actual transcription yahan.", "audio": "/path/to/modi_segment.wav"}
```

All 30 hours -- all `Speaker 0`, all Modi. The model learns: **Speaker 0 = Modi's voice**. It's burned into the weights.

At inference, you just pass:
```
Speaker 0: Mitron, aaj main aapke saath kuch important baat karna chahta hoon.
```

That's it. No reference WAV. No embedding extraction. You use `--disable_prefill` flag, which tells the model "don't look for reference audio, just generate directly." The model already knows what Speaker 0 sounds like because it was trained on nothing but Modi.

**So yes, `Speaker 0` is still there** -- it's a structural tag the model expects in the text. But it's no longer "please clone this voice." It's just "generate speech" and the only voice the finetuned model knows is Modi.

Want me to start preparing the pipeline?

Okay, I have enough context now from the METADATA I already read. Let me explain clearly to the user how the speaker tag system works in VibeVoice.

From the finetuning METADATA I already read:

**Text format for VibeVoice:**
- Single speaker: `"Speaker 0: The transcription text here."`
- Multi speaker: `"Speaker 0: How is the project coming along?\nSpeaker 1: It's going well, we should be finished by Friday."`

**How voice cloning works (current):**
- You provide `voice_prompts` (reference audio) for each speaker

- The model extracts embeddings from that reference audio to condition the generation, so it produces speech matching that voice
- For multi-speaker scenarios, the order of your `voice_prompts` list corresponds to the Speaker 0, 1, etc. tags in your text

**How finetuning changes this:**
- During finetuning, all training data uses `Speaker 0: ...` tags since everything is Modi's voice
- The model learns to associate "Speaker 0" with Modi's voice characteristics
- At inference, you still format text with `Speaker 0: Your text here`, but with `--disable_prefill` you don't need reference audio anymore—the model already knows what Speaker 0 sounds like from training
- The speaker tag is really just a structural format the model expects, not a traditional voice selector

So to answer directly: yes, you still use `Speaker 0: text` format, but after finetuning on Modi-only data, Speaker 0 is Modi, and no reference audio is required.


<user_query>
we already had a finetuned model for vibevoice ..check it is called vibevoice hindi
</user_query>


Now I see it! From the transcript, the user had directories `vibevoice-community` and `vibevoice-official` that were cleaned up. And from the other transcript, it looks like `kani-tts-2-pretrain` is their custom Hindi TTS training project (not VibeVoice, but a different model).

The user mentioned "vibevoice hindi" - this might be a HuggingFace model they used, not a local one. Let me search for it on HuggingFace. Let me also check if there was a specific HuggingFace model called "vibevoice-hindi" that they used before.

I should dig through the transcripts more carefully to see if there are any clues about which specific model or repository they were referencing when they mentioned VibeVoice Hindi.


Found it. There are already **two finetuned VibeVoice Hindi models on HuggingFace** under your account:

- **[tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-7b](https://huggingface.co/tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-7b)** -- 7B version, LoRA + full diffusion head finetuning
- **[tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B](https://huggingface.co/tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B)** -- 1.5B version

Both are already finetuned for Hindi with voice cloning support, multi-speaker, and they use curriculum learning.

So the situation is even simpler than I was describing. You already have a Hindi-finetuned VibeVoice model. The question now becomes:

1. **For Modi specifically** -- you can use the vibevoice-hindi-7b (or 1.5B) model with Modi's reference audio for cloning. Since it's already Hindi-finetuned, the Hindi pronunciation and quality should be much better than the base English model.

2. **To go further (Modi-specific finetuning)** -- you could take your `vibevoice-hindi-7b` as the base model and do a **second round of LoRA finetuning** on your 30hrs of Modi data. This would specialize it even more for Modi's specific voice, and then you can run inference with `--disable_prefill` (no reference audio needed).

Do you want me to:
- **A)** First just test the vibevoice-hindi model with Modi reference audio to see how good it already is?
- **B)** Jump straight to setting up the Modi-specific finetuning on top of the Hindi model?


<user_query>
The difference between 1.5 and 1.7, which need to be fine-tuned
</user_query>


Let me check both model cards to give you a clear comparison.

The user is asking about the difference between the vibevoice-hindi-1.5B and vibevoice-hindi-7B models, and which one they should finetune further for Modi's voice. Let me check the HuggingFace pages for both to give a clear comparison.


Here's the straight comparison:

| | **vibevoice-hindi-1.5B** | **vibevoice-hindi-7B** |
|---|---|---|
| **Total model size** | ~3B params | ~9B params |
| **LLM backbone** | Qwen2.5-1.5B | Qwen2.5-7B |
| **Diffusion head** | ~600M (same) | ~600M (same) |
| **Context length** | 64K tokens (~90 min) | 32K tokens (~45 min) |
| **VRAM needed (inference)** | ~8-10 GB | ~20-24 GB |
| **VRAM needed (LoRA finetune)** | ~16 GB | ~48 GB |
| **Inference speed** | **Faster** (smaller LLM) | **Slower** (bigger LLM) |
| **Quality** | Good | Better (more stable, less artifacts) |
| **Training method** | LoRA on LLM + full diffusion head | Same |

**For your use case (Modi voice TTS, speed matters):**

**Finetune the 1.5B.** Here's why:

- You want speed. The 1.5B LLM backbone is **~4.5x fewer parameters** than the 7B for the autoregressive part. That directly translates to faster token generation.
- Your A100 80GB can handle either, but with 1.5B you get much faster inference and can even batch multiple requests.
- The 1.5B already supports up to 90 minutes of audio generation.
- After finetuning on 30hrs of Modi data, the quality gap between 1.5B and 7B will shrink significantly because the model is specialized on one voice, one language. The 7B's advantage is handling diverse speakers/languages -- you don't need that.

**The plan would be:**
1. Take `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B` as the base
2. LoRA finetune on your 30hrs of Modi data
3. Inference with `--disable_prefill` -- no reference audio, just text in, Modi voice out
4. Serve with vLLM for additional speed

Want me to start?

Now I have all the details. Let me give a clear comparison.


<external_links>
### Potentially Relevant Websearch Results

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Website Title: Vibevoice_1_5_lora
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</external_links>
<user_query>
Check this. Is it useful? I mean, just for reference
https://modelscope.cn/models/AI-ModelScope/Vibevoice_1_5_lora
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1nor9m2/vibevoice_finetuning_is_here/

</user_query>


Okay here's the breakdown on both links:

---

**1. [ModelScope Vibevoice_1_5_lora](https://modelscope.cn/models/AI-ModelScope/Vibevoice_1_5_lora)**

This is just a **mirror** of the base VibeVoice-1.5B model on China's ModelScope platform. Nothing special -- it's the same base model that's on HuggingFace at `vibevoice/VibeVoice-1.5B`. Not a pre-trained Hindi or Modi model. **Not useful for you** since you already have the Hindi-finetuned version (`tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B`) which is ahead of this.

---

**2. [Reddit: VibeVoice finetuning is here](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1nor9m2/vibevoice_finetuning_is_here/)**

This points to two finetuning repos:

- **[voicepowered-ai/VibeVoice-finetuning](https://github.com/voicepowered-ai/VibeVoice-finetuning)** -- This is the one you already have installed (`vibevoice-finetuning` pip package). The main repo with LoRA + diffusion head training. **You already have this.**

- **[sruckh/VibeVoice-finetune-easy](https://github.com/sruckh/VibeVoice-finetune-easy)** -- A simplified wrapper around the same finetuning code. It has 3 scripts:
  1. `01-setup.sh` -- installs everything
  2. `02-prepare_dataset.py` -- auto-transcribes audio and creates JSONL
  3. `03-train.py` -- runs training with sane defaults

  This is actually **useful as a reference** for the dataset preparation step. The `02-prepare_dataset.py` does automatic transcription and JSONL creation from raw audio files, which is exactly what we need to do with your 30hrs of Modi data. But we don't need to use it directly -- we can build our own pipeline since your data needs specific handling (diarization to isolate Modi's voice from the Mann Ki Baat episodes, then transcription, then JSONL formatting).

---

**Bottom line:** Neither link gives you something you don't already have. Your `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B` is already a better starting point than both of these since it's already Hindi-finetuned. The next step is still the same -- prepare your Modi data and do a second round of LoRA training on top of it.

Want me to start?


<user_query>
am not saying take thsoe as refernce ...

am said for finetunning they may help and check
</user_query>


Got it -- checking the actual finetuning code and approach from both repos to see what's useful for our Modi training.

The user wants me to check these repos more carefully for their finetuning approach/code - not as base models but as reference for HOW to finetune. They want me to look at the actual training scripts, configs, and approach to see if there's anything useful we can learn from for finetuning on Modi's voice. Let me dig into the actual code.


Good call. Here's what's actually useful from each for our Modi finetuning:

---

**From [sruckh/VibeVoice-finetune-easy](https://github.com/sruckh/VibeVoice-finetune-easy) -- useful for DATA PREP:**

The `02-prepare_dataset.py` does exactly what we need:
- Takes a folder of audio files
- Auto-transcribes using Whisper (supports `tiny`/`base`/`small`/`medium`/`large`)
- Auto-adds `Speaker 0:` prefix to every line
- Outputs a ready-to-train JSONL file
- Does train/val split automatically

This saves us writing the dataset prep from scratch. We can either use it directly on your processed Modi segments, or borrow the approach.

**From [voicepowered-ai/VibeVoice-finetuning](https://github.com/voicepowered-ai/VibeVoice-finetuning) -- the actual training engine:**

I read the full 900-line `finetune_vibevoice_lora.py`. Key things that matter for us:

- **EMA callback** on the diffusion head (decay=0.999) -- this smooths training and gives better quality at checkpoints. Already built in.
- **Dual loss**: CE loss on text tokens (weight 0.04) + diffusion MSE loss on acoustic latents (weight 1.4). The diffusion loss is what teaches voice quality, so it's weighted much higher.
- **Voice prompt drop rate** at 0.2 -- randomly drops reference audio 20% of the time during training. This is what teaches the model to generate voice WITHOUT reference audio (exactly what we want for `--disable_prefill`).
- **Saves full diffusion head** as `diffusion_head_full.bin` alongside LoRA adapters at every checkpoint -- so you can load just the finetuned head for inference.
- Uses `--model_name_or_path` so we can point it directly at `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B`.

---

**What this means for the Modi pipeline:**

1. **Data prep** -- Use the easy repo's approach: point at cleaned Modi audio segments, auto-transcribe with Whisper large, generate JSONL
2. **Training** -- Use the voicepowered-ai script with:
   - `--model_name_or_path tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B` (start from Hindi model, not base)
   - `--voice_prompt_drop_rate 0.25` (so it learns to work WITHOUT reference audio)
   - `--train_diffusion_head True` (finetune the voice quality layer)
   - `--lora_target_modules q_proj,k_proj,v_proj,o_proj,gate_proj,up_proj,down_proj`
   - Standard hyperparams from the README

Both repos are directly useful -- one for prep, one for training. Want me to start setting it up?

Now I've read all three pieces of code. Let me summarize what's useful for the user:

1. **voicepowered-ai/VibeVoice-finetuning** (`finetune_vibevoice_lora.py`) - This is the full, production-grade training script. Key things:
   - Supports LoRA on LLM + full finetuning of diffusion head + connectors
   - Has EMA callback for smoother training
   - Has LoRA debug callbacks
   - Saves full diffusion head state_dict as fallback
   - Dual loss: CE on text tokens + diffusion MSE on acoustic latents
   - Voice prompt drop rate for regularization
   - The actual `VibeVoiceTrainer` with custom `compute_loss` method

2. **sruckh/VibeVoice-finetune-easy** - Simplified wrapper:
   - `02-prepare_dataset.py` - Useful for dataset prep (auto-transcribe with Whisper, create JSONL, auto speaker tags)
   - `03-train.py` - Just a CLI wrapper around the voicepowered-ai script with presets

The key useful things from these repos for our Modi finetuning: the dataset preparation pipeline from the easy repo looks particularly practical for getting our data ready.

From the **voicepowered-ai** repo, I'm looking at the actual training implementation with some solid hyperparameter recommendations: voice prompt drop rate around 0.2-0.25 for better generalization, learning rate of 2.5e-5, and specific loss weights (diffusion at 1.4, cross-entropy at 0.04). The LoRA configuration uses r=8 with alpha=32, and the training saves both the LoRA weights and the full diffusion head state dict. The EMA callback is also worth incorporating for improved quality.


<user_query>
how many hours of audio need for finetuning
</user_query>


For VibeVoice LoRA finetuning on a **single speaker's voice**, here's what the data shows:

**Minimum viable:** **3-5 hours** of clean, single-speaker audio. This gets you a recognizable voice with decent quality.

**Sweet spot:** **10-15 hours**. This is where the model really locks in on the speaker's tone, cadence, Hindi pronunciation patterns, and natural pauses. Diminishing returns after this for a single voice.

**What you have:** **~30 hours** of raw Modi audio (131 Mann Ki Baat episodes). But here's the thing -- those are raw YouTube downloads at 48kHz stereo. After processing you'll lose some:

- Intro/outro music -- cut
- Audience segments, other speakers -- cut via diarization
- Low quality / noisy segments -- cut
- Need to resample to 24kHz mono (VibeVoice requirement)

You'll probably end up with **15-20 hours of clean Modi-only speech** after processing, which is right in the ideal range. More than enough.

**Important:** Quality matters more than quantity. 10 hours of clean, well-transcribed Modi speech will beat 30 hours of noisy, poorly segmented audio every time. The training script uses segments -- each JSONL entry is one audio clip with its transcription. Ideal segment length is **5-30 seconds** each.

So the pipeline is:
1. Separate Modi's voice from music/noise (Demucs -- you already have scripts for this)
2. Diarize to isolate Modi-only segments (Pyannote -- you have this too)
3. Cut into 5-30 second segments
4. Transcribe each segment (Whisper large)
5. Format into JSONL
6. Train

You don't need all 131 files either. **20-30 of the cleanest episodes** would give you more than enough. Want me to start the data pipeline?


<user_query>
there are no other audios in most ... i want u to remove mucis out .. and after remove silence ... and use vad and cut it to segments ... i will share the prompt for trsnacripts for gemini3.1

 the audio we have is very high quality data it may hve music
</user_query>


Got it. So the pipeline is:

1. **Demucs** -- remove background music, keep vocals only
2. **Remove silence** -- strip dead air
3. **VAD (Voice Activity Detection)** -- detect speech segments
4. **Cut into segments** -- 5-30 second clips ready for training
5. **Transcription** -- you'll handle with your own Gemini 3.1 prompt

No diarization needed since it's Modi-only audio. Clean and straightforward.

Before I build this, let me check what you already have in your scripts and what tools are installed.


You already have most of the pieces. Your `run_demucs_all.py` already does Demucs + silence compression on the Modi files. I need to check what's already been processed, then build the VAD segmentation step on top.

Now I have a clear picture of what exists. The user has:1. `modi/run_demucs_all.py` -- runs Demucs on Modi WAVs + compresses silence. Already handles steps 1 & 2.
2. `Speech_maker_pipeline/scripts/demucs_all.py` -- similar but for Pawan Kalyan
3. `Speech_maker_pipeline/scripts/process_single.py` -- full pipeline (download, demucs, pyannote)

I need to build a pipeline for Modi that:
1. **Demucs** -- remove music (already have `run_demucs_all.py`)

2. **Silence removal** -- already in `run_demucs_all.py`
3. **VAD + Segmentation** -- cut the demucs output into 5-30 second segments using VAD
4. **Resample to 24kHz** -- VibeVoice requires 24kHz
5. **Output organized structure** -- segments with filenames ready for JSONL generation

The user will handle transcription with Gemini 3.1, so I need to check whether demucs has already been run on the Modi files and what the current state is.


Demucs hasn't been run on the Modi files yet. So we need the full pipeline. Here's exactly what I'll build:

1. **Demucs** -- remove music, keep vocals
2. **Resample to 24kHz mono** -- VibeVoice requirement
3. **Silence removal** -- strip dead air
4. **Silero VAD** -- detect speech boundaries
5. **Smart segmentation** -- cut into 5-30 second segments at natural pauses
6. **Output** -- organized folder with segments + a manifest CSV (filename, duration) ready for your Gemini transcription

One script, runs end-to-end on all 131 files. Shall I build it now?


<user_query>
save to sperete new fodler .. savd eprogressly and make it resumebale
</user_query>


Let me do a quick test on one file first to make sure everything works.


Good, 130 source files found. Let me test the full pipeline on the smallest file first.


Pipeline works. 148MB file processed in 68 seconds -- 29 segments totaling ~13.5 minutes of clean Modi speech. Let me verify the output.


Everything works. Here's the summary:

**Test result (1 file):**
- Input: 148MB raw audio (Mann Ki Baat episode)
- Demucs: 54s → music removed, vocals extracted
- Resample: 24kHz mono → 37MB
- VAD + segment: 13s → **29 segments, 13.5 min of clean speech**
- Total: 68 seconds per file

**Output structure:**
```
modi_processed/
├── progress.json          # resumable tracking (per-file stage)
├── manifest.csv           # all segments with filename + duration
├── demucs_vocals/         # intermediate: music-removed audio
├── resampled_24k/         # intermediate: 24kHz mono
└── segments/
    └── 125_bEcYg8Q4aWs/  # one folder per source
        ├── seg_0000.wav   # 5-30s clean Modi speech
        ├── seg_0001.wav
        └── ...
```

**For the full 130 files:** estimated ~2.5 hours (68s x 130). Fully resumable -- if it crashes or you stop it, just run again and it picks up where it left off.

Ready to run the full batch:
```bash
cd /home/ubuntu/modi_processed && python3 pipeline.py
```

Want me to kick it off?


<user_query>
run
</user_query>


Pipeline is running. Let me check the initial progress.


It's running -- 2 files segmented so far. Demucs is the bottleneck (~50-60s per file on GPU). Let me check back in a few minutes.


Good pace -- **4 files done, 219 segments, 1.8 hours of clean speech** so far. About 75s per file average. At this rate, all 130 files will take ~2.5 hours.

It's running in the background and fully resumable. You can:
- **Check progress anytime**: `python3 -c "import json; d=json.load(open('/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/progress.json')); print(sum(1 for v in d.values() if v['stage']=='segmented'), 'done')"`
- **Stop and resume**: just kill the process and run `python3 pipeline.py` again -- it picks up where it left off
- **Check live output**: the terminal is streaming

I'll check back in a bit. Meanwhile the pipeline keeps chugging through all 130 episodes.


<user_query>
y it taking so nuch time ..and i ahve estion if we finetune lora first time .. and if we want to train more can we finetune on that check point checkfor that
</user_query>


GPU is at 0% -- Demucs is running on **CPU**, that's why it's slow. Let me fix that and answer your LoRA question at the same time.

GPU is at 0%! That means Demucs might be running on CPU, which would explain the slowness. Let me check if Demucs is detecting the GPU. Also, it seems the pipeline might be stuck on one file. Let me check the terminal output.


The pipeline is working but slow because it's processing files **one at a time** and Demucs isn't explicitly told to use GPU. Each file takes ~2 minutes for Demucs. 130 files = ~4 hours just for Demucs alone.

Let me kill it and restart with GPU forced + parallel processing. Your A100 80GB can handle 3 Demucs jobs at once easily.

Hmm, I see 5 demucs files done but the progress shows only 4 segmented + 1 resampled. So it's currently stuck on file 005 doing Demucs. But Demucs is taking about 120s per file with GPU. Wait, each file is about 340MB (31 minutes of audio). Demucs takes about 2 minutes per file. So 130 files * 2 min = ~260 min = ~4.3 hours. That's slow.

Actually wait - the problem is that Demucs is running sequentially (one at a time) and each file is a full 30-minute episode.

The Modi files are 300-400MB each, so processing a 31-minute file takes roughly 2 minutes, which is reasonable. But I'm not seeing any terminal output - the stdout might not be flushing. The pipeline is definitely running though, showing 18% CPU usage. The real question is whether the Demucs subprocess is actually leveraging the GPU. When I call `python3 -m demucs`, it should auto-detect and use GPU if available. Let me check the timestamps to see what's actually happening.

Looking at the processing times, each file takes about 2-3 minutes through Demucs, which means 130 files would take roughly 5 hours total including VAD and resampling. The core problem is we're processing sequentially when we could run multiple instances in parallel - the A100 with 80GB VRAM only uses 2-4GB per Demucs process, so there's plenty of headroom. The missing terminal output is because the subprocess is capturing its own output. It looks like we might be stuck on file 005 right now.

Actually, checking the timing more carefully - we've completed 5 files in about 10 minutes since starting at 13:18, so that's roughly 2 minutes per file. With 130 files remaining, we're looking at around 4 hours total. I should kill the current process and restart with explicit CUDA device specification and parallel processing enabled to speed this up significantly.


Now let me restructure the main loop to run Demucs in parallel batches, then VAD sequentially.


Pickle error with `ProcessPoolExecutor` -- the nested function can't be serialized. Quick fix -- use `ThreadPoolExecutor` instead (Demucs runs as subprocess anyway, so threads are fine for this).


Also need to reset the failed files in progress so they get retried.


<user_query>
i think we doont need demucs cut first 2 mins and last 2 mins .. but make sure to cut only at silence dont maek it cut when user speakeing ... ignire demucs
</user_query>


Makes sense -- Mann Ki Baat has intro/outro music only in the first and last ~2 minutes. The speech itself is clean. Skipping Demucs saves a massive amount of time.

New pipeline:
1. **Cut first 2 min and last 2 min** -- but smart-cut at silence boundaries, not mid-speech
2. **Resample to 24kHz mono**
3. **Silero VAD + segmentation** (5-30s)
4. **Manifest CSV**


Now reset progress for files that weren't already segmented from v1, and run.


Massively faster -- **~5 seconds per file** instead of ~60s. Already 52/125 done in 1 minute. Smart trimming is working perfectly (cutting ~120s from each side at silence boundaries).


<user_query>
check
</user_query>


Trim phase is **100% done** (all 125 files). Now doing VAD + segmentation -- 3 of 125 done so far, running ~25s per file. Let me check back shortly.


**Status:**
- **Trim + Resample:** 125/125 done (took ~10 minutes)
- **VAD + Segmentation:** 8/130 done, 122 remaining
- **So far:** 454 segments, 3.6 hours of clean speech
- **ETA:** ~50 minutes for the rest

It's running smoothly. The full pipeline will finish in under an hour total.

Now for your earlier question about **resuming LoRA training from a checkpoint:**

**Yes, absolutely.** The finetuning script has `--resume_from_checkpoint`. So the workflow is:

1. Train round 1 → saves checkpoints to `output_dir/checkpoint-100`, `checkpoint-200`, etc. + final LoRA adapters to `output_dir/lora/`
2. If you want to train more, just run the same command with `--resume_from_checkpoint output_dir/checkpoint-XXX` -- it picks up the optimizer state, learning rate schedule, everything
3. Or if you want to train on **new data** (e.g. more Modi audio later), you load the LoRA checkpoint as the starting point and continue

So you can train incrementally -- start with 10 hours of data, see how it sounds, add more data or more epochs if needed.


<user_query>
are u sure we can fineutune on finetuned lora
</user_query>


Good question. Let me check what `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B` actually is -- merged model or separate LoRA adapters.

The user is asking a very specific question: can you finetune LoRA on an already-finetuned LoRA model?

Let me think about this clearly:

1. **Resume from checkpoint** (`--resume_from_checkpoint`): This continues the SAME training run. The trainer loads the optimizer state, scheduler, and LoRA weights from a checkpoint directory. This works fine and is standard HuggingFace Trainer behavior.

2. **Finetune on a finetuned LoRA model**: This is different. The question is - can you take a model that already has LoRA adapters (like `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B`) and then apply a NEW LoRA on top of it, or continue training the existing LoRA?

The finetuning script loads the base model and then wraps the language model component with LoRA adapters. The key question is whether `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B` is a fully merged model or if it contains LoRA adapters that need to be loaded separately.

Looking at the model card, it's 3B parameters total (the 1.5B LLM plus the diffusion head), which suggests the LoRA adapters were likely merged into the base weights during upload. If that's the case, the finetuning script can treat it as a standard base model and apply new LoRA layers on top. However, if the adapters weren't merged and are still present as PEFT layers, trying to wrap it again with LoRA could create nested adapter issues.

So the key distinction is whether the model is fully merged or still has unmerged adapters—if it's merged, finetuning works straightforwardly; if not, I'd need to either resume from that checkpoint or merge the existing LoRA first before applying new ones.


That confirms it. `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B` is a **fully merged model** -- 2.7B parameters in 3 safetensors shards, architecture `VibeVoiceForConditionalGeneration`. The LoRA was already merged into the weights and uploaded as a complete model.

So here's the clear answer:

**Yes, you can finetune on it.** Since the Hindi LoRA has been **merged into the base weights**, the finetuning script sees it as a regular base model. When you run:

```bash
--model_name_or_path tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B
```

It loads the full merged Hindi model, then applies a fresh LoRA on top for your Modi training. No conflicts, no nested adapters. It's the clean way to do it.

**But if you were asking about LoRA-on-LoRA (unmerged)** -- that would be problematic. PEFT can technically do nested adapters, but the VibeVoice script doesn't handle it. You'd need to manually merge the first LoRA before applying the second. However, that's not your case here since the Hindi model is already merged.

**Your training flow:**
1. Load `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B` (merged Hindi model) as base
2. Apply new LoRA for Modi voice
3. Train on your Modi data
4. Checkpoints saved → can resume with `--resume_from_checkpoint`
5. Final LoRA saved → can merge into full model if you want to finetune again later


<user_query>
i am asking about finetuning again
</user_query>


You mean: after you finetune on Modi data and get your LoRA checkpoint, can you take **that same LoRA** and train it further with more data or more epochs?

**Yes.** Two ways:

1. **Same run, more epochs** -- `--resume_from_checkpoint output/checkpoint-XXX`. This loads the exact LoRA weights + optimizer state and continues training. No issues.

2. **New data, continue training the same LoRA** -- the finetuning script saves LoRA adapters to `output_dir/lora/`. You can't directly pass that as `--model_name_or_path` though, because the script expects a full base model, not standalone LoRA weights. So what you'd do is:
   - **Merge the LoRA into the base model** first (using PEFT's `merge_and_unload()`)
   - Save the merged model
   - Use that merged model as the new `--model_name_or_path`
   - Apply fresh LoRA and train again

That's exactly what was done with the Hindi model -- they trained LoRA, merged it, uploaded the merged version. Then you can train on top of it again.

**So the cycle is:**

```
Base model → LoRA train → Merge → New base model → LoRA train → Merge → ...
```

Each round you merge the LoRA into the weights, and that becomes your new starting point. You can repeat this as many times as you want.

I can write a quick merge script for you when we get to that point. But for now, your first round of Modi training will use the already-merged Hindi model as base, so we're good.


<user_query>
what is status on preprocessing
</user_query>


**Current status:**

| Stage | Count |
|---|---|
| Trimmed (waiting for VAD) | 101 |
| Segmented (done) | 29 |

**Done so far:** 1,656 segments, **13.3 hours** of clean Modi speech

Running VAD at ~24s per file. 101 remaining = ~40 minutes left.

At this rate you'll end up with roughly **55-60 hours** of segmented speech total from all 130 files. Way more than enough for finetuning.


<user_query>
we can few more and stop 20 to 25 hrs of audio is enigh
</user_query>


15.2 hours done. Let it run a bit more to hit ~20-25 hours, then I'll stop it. That needs roughly 15-20 more files at ~30 min of speech each.


**20.8 hours** -- right in the sweet spot. Let me stop it now.


<user_query>
status
</user_query>


Pipeline stopped. Here's the final status:

**Done: 56 files | 3,266 segments | 26.2 hours of clean Modi speech**

That's more than enough for finetuning. The manifest CSV has 283 entries from the earlier run though -- let me rebuild it to include all 3,266 segments.


<user_query>
stop it
</user_query>


Stopped. You have **56 files, 3,266 segments, 26.2 hours** of clean Modi speech ready. More than enough.

Next step is your Gemini 3.1 transcription -- you said you'll handle that. The segments are in `/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/segments/`, organized by source file. Once you have transcripts, we build the JSONL and start finetuning.


<user_query>
and how this lora works ... everytime we send text does it sound like modi? how it actually works explain
</user_query>


Here's how it actually works under the hood:

---

**How VibeVoice generates speech (base model):**

The model has 3 main parts:

1. **LLM (Qwen2.5-1.5B)** -- reads the text, understands what to say, decides the rhythm/pacing/intonation. It outputs a sequence of hidden states.

2. **Diffusion Head (~600M params)** -- takes those hidden states and generates acoustic tokens. This is what creates the actual "sound" -- the timbre, pitch, vocal quality. Think of it as a painter that turns instructions into an actual voice.

3. **Acoustic Decoder (frozen)** -- converts acoustic tokens into the final WAV file. Never trained, just a decoder.

When you do **voice cloning** (no finetuning), the model takes a reference WAV, extracts acoustic features from it, and uses those as a "style guide" for the diffusion head. The LLM says "speak these words with this rhythm" and the diffusion head says "make it sound like this reference audio." But the model is guessing every time -- it's trying to match a voice it's never deeply learned.

---

**What LoRA finetuning changes:**

LoRA adds tiny trainable matrices (adapters) inside the LLM's attention layers. During training on 26 hours of Modi speech:

- The **LLM learns** Modi's specific speech patterns -- how he pauses, his sentence rhythm, his Hindi pronunciation style, when he emphasizes words, his characteristic "Mitron..." cadence. The LoRA adapters shift the LLM's behavior from "generic speaker" to "Modi speaker."

- The **Diffusion Head learns** (full finetuning, not LoRA) Modi's actual vocal timbre -- the specific frequency patterns, resonance, breathiness, pitch range that make Modi sound like Modi. After training, this head can ONLY produce Modi-like audio because that's all it's seen.

---

**At inference time after finetuning:**

```
Input: "Speaker 0: Mitron, aaj hum baat karenge Digital India ke baare mein."
         ↓
   LLM (with LoRA adapters)
   - Already knows Modi's rhythm, pacing, emphasis
   - Generates hidden states with Modi-style prosody baked in
         ↓
   Diffusion Head (finetuned on Modi)
   - Takes those hidden states
   - Generates acoustic tokens that sound like Modi
   - It literally can't produce any other voice -- Modi is all it knows
         ↓
   Acoustic Decoder
   - Converts to WAV
         ↓
   Output: Modi's voice saying the text
```

No reference audio needed. No embedding extraction. The model's weights themselves have been permanently shifted to produce Modi's voice.

---

**Why it's faster than cloning:**

With cloning, the model has to:
1. Load reference WAV → run through acoustic tokenizer → extract features → compute KV-cache → THEN generate

With finetuned LoRA:
1. Text goes in → speech comes out

You skip the entire reference processing pipeline. The LoRA adapters are just tiny weight additions (~10-20MB) loaded once when the model starts. They add zero overhead per inference call.

---

**So yes -- every time you send text, it sounds like Modi.** Not because it's copying a reference clip, but because the model's brain has been rewired to only know how to speak like Modi.

The user wants a clear technical explanation of how LoRA finetuning actually works in VibeVoice - specifically how the model learns to sound like Modi and how it generates Modi's voice at inference time. Let me explain this at a level that's clear but technically accurate.


<user_query>
how many hours segmented
</user_query>


**26.7 hours** -- 3,325 segments from 57 files.


<user_query>
y we segmneted evrything to 30sec only
</user_query>


You're right -- 97% of segments are 25-31 seconds. The split logic is too aggressive on hitting the MAX_SEGMENT_SEC boundary. It's splitting at every ~30s mark even when speech is flowing naturally.

The issue is in the VAD: Modi speaks continuously with very short pauses. The VAD merges everything into huge chunks (since MERGE_THRESHOLD is 2s and Modi rarely pauses that long), then the splitter chops those huge chunks at 30s intervals.

Do you want me to:
- **Increase max to 60s** so segments follow more natural pause boundaries?
- **Or keep it as-is?** For VibeVoice finetuning, 30s segments actually work fine -- the model handles up to 90 minutes, so 30s is well within range. Shorter segments can actually be better for training because each one is a complete thought with a clean start/end.

What do you prefer?


<user_query>
ook then keep that only
</user_query>


Good, we keep it as-is. **26.7 hours, 3,325 segments, mostly ~30s each.** That's solid training data.

Next step is your Gemini 3.1 transcription. The segments are ready at `/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/segments/`. Once you have the transcripts, let me know and I'll build the JSONL for finetuning.


<user_query>
"""
Parameterized system prompt + Pydantic JSON schema.
Prompt is ~400 tokens, language-specific, no schema in prompt text (API-only enforcement).
"""
from __future__ import annotations

from enum import Enum
from typing import Optional

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

from .config import LANGUAGE_MAP, AUDIO_EVENT_TAGS, SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES

# === PYDANTIC SCHEMA (used for both AI Studio response_json_schema and OpenRouter json_schema) ===

class SpeakerEmotion(str, Enum):
    neutral = "neutral"
    happy = "happy"
    sad = "sad"
    angry = "angry"
    excited = "excited"
    surprised = "surprised"

class SpeakingStyle(str, Enum):
    conversational = "conversational"
    narrative = "narrative"
    excited = "excited"
    calm = "calm"
    emphatic = "emphatic"
    sarcastic = "sarcastic"
    formal = "formal"

class SpeakerPace(str, Enum):
    slow = "slow"
    normal = "normal"
    fast = "fast"

class SpeakerMetadata(BaseModel):
    emotion: SpeakerEmotion = Field(description="Speaker emotion detected from audio prosody")
    speaking_style: SpeakingStyle = Field(description="Speaking style detected from audio")
    pace: SpeakerPace = Field(description="Speaking pace: slow, normal, or fast")
    accent: str = Field(default="", description="Sub-regional dialect only (e.g. 'Hyderabadi', 'Chennai', 'Bhojpuri'). Do NOT put the language name. Empty string if unsure.")

class TranscriptionSchema(BaseModel):
    """The output schema enforced via API structured output."""
    transcription: str = Field(description="Native script transcription with minimal punctuation. Code-mixed: each language in its own script.")
    tagged: str = Field(description="Same as transcription but with audio event tags inserted at their positions.")
    speaker: SpeakerMetadata = Field(description="Speaker metadata derived from audio prosody")
    detected_language: str = Field(description="ISO 639-1 code of the language actually spoken. If code-mixed, the dominant language.")

def get_json_schema() -> dict:
    """Return the JSON schema dict for API enforcement."""
    schema = TranscriptionSchema.model_json_schema()
    # Flatten $defs into inline for API compatibility
    return _resolve_refs(schema)

def _resolve_refs(schema: dict, defs: dict | None = None) -> dict:
    """Recursively resolve $ref pointers so the schema is self-contained."""
    if defs is None:
        defs = schema.pop("$defs", {})

    if "$ref" in schema:
        ref_name = schema["$ref"].split("/")[-1]
        resolved = defs.get(ref_name, {})
        return _resolve_refs(dict(resolved), defs)

    result = {}
    for k, v in schema.items():
        if k == "$defs":
            continue
        if isinstance(v, dict):
            result[k] = _resolve_refs(v, defs)
        elif isinstance(v, list):
            result[k] = [_resolve_refs(item, defs) if isinstance(item, dict) else item for item in v]
        else:
            result[k] = v
    return result

# === SYSTEM PROMPTS ===

# V1: Original language-specific prompt (~430 tokens) — kept for backward compat
SYSTEM_PROMPT_TEMPLATE = """You are a verbatim speech-to-text transcription system. You are NOT a conversational assistant. Your output must precisely match the audio content.

TARGET: {lang_name} ({lang_code})

CRITICAL RULES (violations cause rejection):
1. NEVER TRANSLATE. This is transcription, not translation. If the speaker says English words, those are English. If the speaker says {lang_name} words, those are {lang_name}. Write what you HEAR.
2. VERBATIM FIDELITY: Every repetition, filler, stammer, false start, hesitation - exactly as spoken.
3. NO CORRECTION: Do not fix grammar, pronunciation, dialect, or word choice.
4. NO HALLUCINATION: Never add words not in the audio. If audio cuts off mid-sentence, STOP where the audio stops. Output ONLY the JSON.
5. UNCERTAINTY: If a word is unclear, write [UNK]. Use [INAUDIBLE] for unintelligible speech. Use [NO_SPEECH] for no speech.
6. BOUNDARY HANDLING: Audio is VAD-cut and may start/end mid-speech. Transcribe everything you can confidently hear.
7. LANGUAGE MISMATCH: Trust what you hear. If audio is clearly different from {lang_name}, transcribe in that language's script and set detected_language accordingly.

PUNCTUATION (prosody-based only): comma, period, ? and ! — insert from audible pauses/intonation only.

SCRIPT RULES FOR {script_name}: {script_hint}

NUMBERS: Write all numbers as digits (1, 2, 100, 1000) not words.

FIELD DERIVATION:
"transcription" is the PRIMARY output. Code-mixed: each language in its own script.
"tagged" is identical to transcription but with audio event markers inserted at their positions.

ALLOWED EVENT TAGS (only if clearly audible): {event_tags}

"speaker" metadata: detect emotion, speaking_style, pace from audio prosody. For accent: only a specific sub-regional dialect (e.g. "Hyderabadi", "Chennai"). Do NOT put the language name. Default to empty string.
"detected_language": ISO 639-1 code of the dominant language actually spoken."""

# V2: Uniform cacheable prompt — language-agnostic, ~1024+ tokens
# Language hint moves to user message. Examples earn their token budget.
CACHEABLE_SYSTEM_PROMPT = """# Role

You are a verbatim speech-to-text transcription system. You are NOT a conversational assistant. Your output must precisely match the audio content. Output ONLY the JSON.

# Critical Rules

1. NEVER TRANSLATE. This is transcription, not translation. Write what you HEAR in the script it was spoken in.
2. VERBATIM FIDELITY. Every repetition, filler, stammer, false start, hesitation — exactly as spoken. Do not clean up speech.
3. NO CORRECTION. Do not fix grammar, pronunciation, dialect, or word choice.
4. NO HALLUCINATION. Never add words not in the audio. If audio cuts off mid-sentence, STOP where the audio stops.
5. UNCERTAINTY. If a word is unclear, write [UNK]. Use [INAUDIBLE] for unintelligible speech.
6. BOUNDARY HANDLING. Audio is VAD-cut and may start or end mid-speech. Transcribe everything you can confidently hear. Do not guess what came before or after.
7. LANGUAGE MISMATCH. Trust what you hear. The expected language hint is just a hint. If audio is clearly in a different language, transcribe in that language's script and set detected_language accordingly.

# Code-Mixed Transcription

Audio may contain multiple languages. Each language stays in its native script. Do NOT transliterate.
- Indic words: write in their native script (Devanagari, Telugu, Tamil, etc.)
- English words spoken in an Indic sentence: keep in Latin script
- Hindi words in a Telugu sentence: keep in Devanagari
- Preserve Sandhi and combined forms as spoken. Do not over-split words.

# Punctuation

Insert punctuation from audible prosodic cues only. No pause heard = no punctuation.
- Only: comma, period, ? and !
- Do not add punctuation for grammatical correctness

# No Speech

If the audio contains no speech (only silence, noise, or music), set transcription to [NO_SPEECH].

# Field Rules

- "transcription": the PRIMARY authoritative field. Verbatim, code-mixed, native script.
- "tagged": identical to transcription, with event tags inserted at their audio positions. Do NOT re-interpret the audio for this field — copy transcription and insert tags.
- "speaker": emotion, speaking_style, pace — derived from audio prosody only. For "accent": only fill if you can identify a specific sub-regional dialect (e.g. "Hyderabadi", "Chennai", "Bhojpuri"). Do NOT put the language name. Default to empty string.
- "detected_language": ISO 639-1 code of the dominant language actually spoken.

# Event Tags

Insert ONLY if clearly and prominently audible. Do not guess.
- [laugh] — audible laughter
- [cough] — actual cough sound
- [sigh] — audible exhale/sigh
- [breath] — heavy or prominent breathing
- [singing] — speaker is singing, not speaking
- [noise] — environmental noise disrupting speech
- [music] — background music audible during speech or if humming
- [applause] — clapping from audience or speaker
- [snort] — nasal snort sound
- [cry] — audible crying or sobbing

# Reference Examples

## Example: Code-mixed (Telugu + English)
Input context: Telugu podcast, speaker casually mixing English
transcription: "నాకు ఈ phone చాలా బాగుంది, like really good quality అన్నమాట"
tagged: "నాకు ఈ phone చాలా బాగుంది, like really good quality అన్నమాట"
detected_language: "te"

## Example: Code-mixed (Hindi + English)
Input context: Hindi interview with English technical terms
transcription: "तो basically हमने machine learning model को train किया और results काफ़ी अच्छे आए"
tagged: "तो basically हमने machine learning model को train किया और results काफ़ी अच्छे आए"
detected_language: "hi"

## Example: No speech
Input context: Segment contains only background noise
transcription: "[NO_SPEECH]"
tagged: "[NO_SPEECH]"
detected_language: (same as expected hint)

## Example: Abrupt cutoff
Input context: Audio ends mid-word due to VAD boundary
transcription: "అప్పుడు వాళ్ళు వచ్చి చెప్పారు కదా, ఆ తర్వాత మన"
tagged: "అప్పుడు వాళ్ళు వచ్చి చెప్పారు కదా, ఆ తర్వాత మన"
Note: audio cuts mid-word at "మన" — transcribe only what is heard, do not complete the word.

## Example: Event tags
Input context: Speaker laughs while talking
transcription: "అది చాలా funny moment"
tagged: "అది చాలా [laugh] funny moment"
detected_language: "te"

## Example: Language mismatch
Input context: Expected Hindi but speaker is actually speaking English
transcription: "so the main thing about this product is the packaging"
tagged: "so the main thing about this product is the packaging"
detected_language: "en"
"""

# User prompt template — carries the language hint per-request
USER_PROMPT_TEMPLATE = "TARGET LANGUAGE: {lang_name} ({lang_code})\nTranscribe this audio segment. Return a valid JSON object with all required fields."

# Simple user prompt for V1 (language in system prompt)
USER_PROMPT = "Transcribe this audio segment following the system instructions. Return a valid JSON object with all required fields."

def build_system_prompt(lang_code: str) -> str:
    """Build the V1 language-specific system prompt."""
    if lang_code not in LANGUAGE_MAP:
        lang_code = "en"

    lang_name, script_name, script_hint = LANGUAGE_MAP[lang_code]
    event_tags = ", ".join(f"[{t}]" for t in AUDIO_EVENT_TAGS)

    return SYSTEM_PROMPT_TEMPLATE.format(
        lang_name=lang_name,
        lang_code=lang_code,
        script_name=script_name,
        script_hint=script_hint,
        event_tags=event_tags,
    )

def get_cacheable_system_prompt() -> str:
    """Return the V2 uniform cacheable system prompt (language-agnostic)."""
    return CACHEABLE_SYSTEM_PROMPT

def build_user_prompt(lang_code: str) -> str:
    """Build per-request user prompt with language hint (for V2 cached mode)."""
    if lang_code not in LANGUAGE_MAP:
        lang_code = "en"
    lang_name, _, _ = LANGUAGE_MAP[lang_code]
    return USER_PROMPT_TEMPLATE.format(lang_name=lang_name, lang_code=lang_code)

def get_user_prompt() -> str:
    """Return the V1 user prompt (language already in system prompt)."""
    return USER_PROMPT

 this is the prompt we need to use just it is langaige agnostic.. make it only for hindi ...

and use the same promt
</user_query>


Let me check what Gemini API setup you have, then build the transcription script with the Hindi-specific prompt.

The user wants me to create a transcription script that uses their existing prompt system but simplified for Hindi-only. They want to use Gemini to transcribe the Modi audio segments. Let me:

1. Simplify the prompt for Hindi-only
2. Build a transcription script that processes all segments using Gemini API

Let me check what Gemini API they're using and if they have credentials set up.


Good. You have 3,325 segments, a Gemini key, and `google-genai` v1.64 installed. Let me check how the newer `google-genai` SDK sends audio files.

The user wants me to take the CACHEABLE_SYSTEM_PROMPT from their existing transcription system and make it Hindi-specific for transcribing the Modi audio segments. Then build a script that uses Gemini to transcribe all 3,325 segments.

Let me create a Hindi-specific version of the prompt and a transcription script. The user has:
- 3,325 WAV segments in `/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/segments/`
- Gemini API key in `/home/ubuntu/transcripts/.env`
- `google-genai` package installed

Let me build a clean, focused transcription script that:

1. Uses the cacheable prompt simplified for Hindi only
2. Sends audio to Gemini 3 Flash
3. Gets back structured JSON
4. Saves transcripts progressively
5. Is resumable

Now I need to check how the google-genai API handles audio file uploads and streaming responses so I can structure the script properly.


Good -- inline audio works fine at ~1.3 MB per segment. Now let me build the transcription script with the Hindi-specific prompt.

Good. The inline audio approach works. Each segment is ~1.3 MB which is fine for inline data. Let me now build the transcription script.

Key design decisions:
1. Hindi-only prompt (simplified from the cacheable system prompt)
2. Use `google-genai` SDK with inline audio blobs
3. Structured JSON output via `response_mime_type` + `response_schema`
4. Resumable with progress tracking
5. Parallel with rate limiting (Gemini Flash has generous limits)
6. Save transcripts as JSONL for VibeVoice fine-tuning

Let me create the script.


Now let me build the full transcription script.


Let me do a quick single-segment test first to make sure the API call works before running the full batch.


<user_query>
use gemini-3.1-preview
</user_query>


Wait, let me check the exact model name for Gemini 3.1 preview.


<user_query>
usse best model
</user_query>


Let me check what models are available on your API.

The user wants me to use the best Gemini model available. Let me check what models are available via the API.


`gemini-3.1-pro-preview` is the best model available. Let me update and do a quick test.


Now let me test with one segment to make sure it works.


Gemini 3.1 Pro requires thinking mode. Let me fix that.


Working perfectly. Clean Hindi transcription with code-mixed English terms preserved in Latin script. The `[breath]` tags are correctly inserted in the tagged field. Ready to run the full batch -- should I start it?


<user_query>
do we need like this [breath] does vibevoice expects this
</user_query>


Good point -- no, VibeVoice does **not** expect or use tags like `[breath]`, `[applause]`, etc. It just takes plain text in the format `Speaker 0: <text>`.

Those tags are from the original transcription system which was designed for a different purpose. For fine-tuning VibeVoice, we only need the clean `transcription` field, not the `tagged` field.

We can simplify the prompt and schema -- remove the `tagged` field, the `speaker` metadata, and all event tag instructions entirely. That will also make each API call faster and cheaper since the model has less to produce.

Let me strip it down to just what VibeVoice needs: clean Hindi text.


Let me verify the simplified version works.


Clean output -- just the `transcription` field, no tags, no metadata. The VibeVoice dataset entry for this would be:

```json
{"text": "Speaker 0: साथियों, exhibition के दौरान display के लिए सुश्रुत संहिता का चयन किया गया...", "audio": "/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/segments/001_ERW9i1lwnBw/seg_0005.wav"}
```

Stripped out all the unnecessary fields (`tagged`, `speaker`, `detected_language`, event tags). The prompt is now ~200 tokens instead of ~1000. Should I run the full batch on all 3,325 segments?


<user_query>
1 more question it have english words ryt .. does it ok ? just answrr ?
</user_query>


Yes, it's fine. VibeVoice handles code-mixed text natively -- Modi says words like "exhibition", "technology", "Digital India" in English mid-sentence, and the model will synthesize them correctly in his voice. That's exactly how he speaks, so training on it makes the output more natural and authentic.


<user_query>
where outputs saved and how ?
</user_query>


Two places:

1. **Individual JSON files** -- each segment gets its own file at `/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/transcripts/<video_id>/<seg_name>.json`. For example:
   ```
   transcripts/001_ERW9i1lwnBw/seg_0005.json
   ```
   Contains just:
   ```json
   {"transcription": "साथियों, exhibition के दौरान..."}
   ```

2. **Progress file** -- `/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/transcribe_progress.json` stores every result (for resumability). Saved every 50 completions and at the end.

3. **Final dataset** -- once all done, it auto-builds `/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/dataset.jsonl` in VibeVoice format:
   ```json
   {"text": "Speaker 0: साथियों, exhibition के दौरान...", "audio": "/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/segments/001_ERW9i1lwnBw/seg_0005.wav"}
   ```
   One line per segment, ready to feed directly into fine-tuning.

If it crashes or you stop it, rerunning picks up exactly where it left off using the progress file.


<user_query>
how many aprallel calls we sening to gemini
</user_query>


8 parallel calls right now (`WORKERS = 8` on line 27).

Gemini 3.1 Pro preview typically allows around 10-15 RPM for free tier, or 1000+ RPM for paid. Want me to adjust? If you're on paid API, I can bump it higher (like 20-30) to finish faster. If free tier, 8 might already hit rate limits and we'd need to lower it.


<user_query>
not free this is tier 3
</user_query>


Tier 3 is generous -- let me bump it up to 30 workers. That'll finish much faster.


30 parallel calls. With ~14s per request, that's roughly 2 segments/second -- should finish all 3,325 segments in about 30 minutes. Want me to run it?


<user_query>
run it
</user_query>


Running smoothly. **113/3325 done, 2.1 segments/sec, 0 errors, ETA ~26 minutes.** I'll check back in a bit.


<user_query>
sttaus
</user_query>


Looks like it might be stuck at 113. Let me check if the process is still alive.

Hmm, it seems stuck at 113. Let me check if the process is still running.


Process is alive but seems to have stalled. Likely hitting rate limits with 30 workers on Gemini 3.1 Pro. Let me check the latest output more carefully.


Stuck at 113. The 30 workers are all blocked on rate-limited retries. Let me kill it, reduce workers, and restart -- it'll resume from 113 thanks to the progress file.


200 actually saved (the progress saves every 50 completions -- those last ones were in flight). Let me lower workers to 10 and add a small delay between submissions to avoid hitting the rate limit wall.


Still no output after 80 seconds -- likely all 10 workers are stuck in retry loops from the earlier rate limiting. Let me kill and check the rate limit situation first.


<user_query>
status
</user_query>


Not running. Let me test a single API call to see if rate limits have cleared.


API is working fine now. The issue was 30 workers hammered the rate limit. Let me check progress and restart with 10 workers.


200 done, 3125 remaining. Restarting with 10 workers now.


Still no output after 40s. The issue might be that all 10 workers submit simultaneously and then all hit rate limits at once. The problem is the ThreadPoolExecutor submits ALL 3125 tasks at once, so all 10 workers start immediately and hit the API together. Let me think about what's happening...

Actually, wait - the issue might be something else. With the previous run, 30 workers sent requests, got 200 done, and the remaining workers all got rate limited. The retry logic would make them wait exponentially (3, 6, 12 seconds). With RETRY_MAX=5, the max wait per attempt would be 3 * 2^4 = 48 seconds.

The new process loaded the progress file, found 3125 pending tasks, and submitted them all to the ThreadPool at once. The first 10 workers picked them up and sent requests simultaneously, but if they're still hitting rate limits from the earlier 30-worker burst, that would explain the hang. Though it's been several minutes since then, so maybe something else is going on - could be a startup delay or an import issue. Let me review the full output to see what's actually happening.


No output at all -- not even the "Total segments" header. The process might be hanging on the initial file scan or client creation. Let me check.


Process is alive but no stdout. The issue is likely print buffering since it's running in background. Let me kill it and add `flush=True` or use unbuffered output.


Need to run with `PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1` so prints flush immediately to the terminal file.


It's running now -- **206/3325 done, 0 errors**. The rate is low (~0.2/s) because the first batch of 10 workers are warming up. Let me check again in a minute to see if the rate stabilizes.


**228/3325 done, 0 errors, ~0.3/s.** Rate is low -- Gemini 3.1 Pro is slower per request than Flash. At 0.3/s that's about ~170 minutes (~3 hours) for the remaining 3097.

This is the trade-off with 3.1 Pro -- better quality transcription but much slower. Want me to:
1. **Keep it running** on 3.1 Pro (~3 hours total)
2. **Switch to `gemini-2.5-flash`** -- much faster, still good quality, would finish in ~30 min


<user_query>
y at start it ran fast
</user_query>


The first run with 30 workers was actually fast (2.1/s) because all 30 requests fired simultaneously -- you were getting high throughput by brute-forcing parallelism. But after ~113 completions, the API rate limit kicked in and all 30 workers got stuck in retry loops.

Now with 10 workers, the rate is limited by the **per-request latency of 3.1 Pro** which is ~10-14 seconds per call. So 10 workers doing ~10s each = ~1 request/second max. The 0.3/s you see is because it's still recovering from the earlier rate limit cooldown.

The core issue: **3.1 Pro is a heavy model** -- great quality but slow inference. `gemini-2.5-flash` would respond in ~2-3 seconds per call, so 10 workers would give you 3-5/s easily.

For TTS training data, Flash quality is more than sufficient -- you just need accurate text, not reasoning. Want me to switch to Flash?


<user_query>
y cant u increaste reqeusts to 300 concurrenct requests
</user_query>


<user_query>
keep it 50 workers
</user_query>


Now we're talking. **386/3325 done, 2.9/s, 0 errors, ETA ~17 minutes.** 50 workers is hitting the sweet spot.


<user_query>
just a curiuos aqurstion ..what if in future i want to add 1 more speaker .. our focus only modi vose for now... if another spejaer needs we need to do seprate lora is it correct ?
</user_query>


Two options:

1. **Separate LoRA per speaker** (recommended) -- Train a new LoRA for the second speaker independently. At inference time, just load whichever LoRA you need. No interference between speakers, each stays optimal. You swap adapters, not models.

2. **Single multi-speaker LoRA** -- Combine both speakers' data in one training set using different tags (`Speaker 0:` for Modi, `Speaker 1:` for the other). One LoRA handles both. But quality per speaker drops slightly since the adapter's capacity is shared.

For your case, separate LoRAs is the way to go. You keep Modi's LoRA untouched, train a fresh one for the new speaker. Same base model, just different adapters loaded at runtime. Switching between them is instant -- no model reload needed, just swap the adapter weights.

The user is asking about adding another speaker in the future for VibeVoice fine-tuning. Let me answer this clearly.

With VibeVoice's architecture:

1. **Single LoRA for multiple speakers** - You CAN train a single LoRA on multiple speakers. The base VibeVoice model already handles multi-speaker via `Speaker 0:`, `Speaker 1:` tags. So you could add another speaker's data to the training set with a different speaker tag.

2. **Separate LoRAs** - You could also train separate LoRAs for each speaker, and swap them at inference time.

3. **Merging approach** - Another option is merging the Modi LoRA into the base model first, then training a new LoRA on top for the second speaker.

For your situation with Modi as the focus now and potentially adding another speaker later, the most practical approaches are training a separate LoRA for the new speaker to avoid any interference, merging Modi's LoRA into the base and then training a new multi-speaker LoRA with both speakers' data, or training a single LoRA with both speakers from the start.


<user_query>
check preprocessing state
</user_query>


Almost done -- **3318/3325, 0 errors, seconds away from finishing.** Let me grab the final output.


3 left, but they're stuck in retries. Let me wait a bit more.


<user_query>
status
</user_query>


Done. **All 3,325 segments transcribed in 24 minutes, 0 errors.** The VibeVoice dataset is ready at `/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/dataset.jsonl` -- 3,325 entries.


All set. **3,325 entries** in VibeVoice format with `Speaker 0:` prefix, clean Hindi+English code-mixed text, pointing to the audio segments. Ready for fine-tuning.


<user_query>
what is next step
</user_query>


Fine-tuning. Here's what we have and what's next:

**Done:**
- 3,325 audio segments (~26.7 hours of clean Modi speech)
- All transcribed with Gemini 3.1 Pro
- `dataset.jsonl` ready in VibeVoice format

**Next step: LoRA fine-tuning on VibeVoice-Hindi-1.5B**

We fine-tune on your already Hindi-tuned model (`tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B`) so Modi's voice gets baked in on top of the Hindi capability. This means:
- Base: `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B` (your merged Hindi model)
- Data: `/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/dataset.jsonl`
- Method: LoRA on the LLM + full fine-tune on diffusion head
- After training: use `--disable_prefill` (no reference audio needed, just text in, Modi voice out)

You have an A100 80GB which is perfect for this. Training on 26 hours of data should take roughly 4-8 hours depending on epochs.

Want me to set up and start the fine-tuning script?


<user_query>
how many epoches we need to train
</user_query>


For 26 hours of data (3,325 segments), **2-3 epochs** is the sweet spot.

The rule of thumb:
- **< 1 hour of data**: 5-10 epochs (model needs more passes to learn the voice)
- **1-5 hours**: 3-5 epochs
- **10+ hours**: 2-3 epochs
- **26 hours**: 2 epochs is likely enough, 3 max

Your dataset is large for single-speaker fine-tuning -- most people do it with 1-5 hours. With 26 hours, the model gets massive variety of Modi's speech patterns, intonation, and pronunciation in just one pass. A second epoch reinforces it. Going beyond 3 risks overfitting where it starts memorizing specific sentences instead of generalizing his voice.

I'd recommend **starting with 2 epochs**, save checkpoints every 500 steps, and we can evaluate mid-training. If it sounds good at epoch 1 checkpoint, we can stop early. If it needs more, we resume to epoch 3.

Want me to set it up?

The user is asking about how many epochs to train for LoRA fine-tuning on their Modi voice data. Let me think about this:

For LoRA fine-tuning on TTS models with ~26 hours of data:

- With a large dataset like 26 hours (3,325 segments), you don't need many epochs
- Typically 1-3 epochs is sufficient for this amount of data
- Too many epochs = overfitting (the model memorizes instead of generalizing)
- The VibeVoice finetuning repos typically recommend 1-3 epochs for datasets of this size

Key factors:

- **Dataset size**: 26 hours is quite large for single-speaker fine-tuning, much more than the typical 1-5 hours used for voice cloning
- **LoRA rank**: Lower rank = less capacity = less overfitting risk
- **With 26 hours**: 1-2 epochs should be plenty since the model will see enough variety

Looking at the scaling pattern, smaller datasets under an hour need 5-10 epochs, medium ones around 1-5 hours need 3-5, and anything 10+ hours drops to 1-3 epochs. Since you're at 26 hours, you're really at the high end where 1-2 epochs is optimal.

I'd start with 2 epochs to see how it performs. With your 3,325 samples, that gives you around 6,650 training steps at batch size 1, or roughly 830 steps if you bump the batch size to 8.


<user_query>
on single a100 gpu how much time it will takes
</user_query>


Rough estimate for A100 80GB with LoRA fine-tuning on VibeVoice-1.5B:

- **3,325 segments × 2 epochs = 6,650 training steps** (batch size 1)
- With gradient accumulation of 4 and batch size 2: ~830 effective steps
- Each step on A100: ~3-5 seconds (audio needs to be processed through the encoder + LLM forward/backward + diffusion head)

**Estimate: ~2-4 hours for 2 epochs.**

The bottleneck is audio encoding per step, not the LLM part (LoRA is lightweight). The A100's 80GB VRAM means we can use a reasonable batch size without memory issues, which speeds things up.

If we use the 7B model instead, it would be ~3x slower (~8-12 hours). That's why 1.5B is the better choice here.

Want me to set it up and start?


<user_query>
yeah start
</user_query>


The user wants me to set up and start the VibeVoice LoRA fine-tuning. Let me first check what's available - the finetuning package, the model, etc.

From the conversation summary, I know:
- `vibevoice-finetuning` package is installed (pip)
- The source directories were deleted but the packages are installed
- Base model: `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B` (user's merged Hindi model on HuggingFace)
- Dataset: `/home/ubuntu/modi_processed/dataset.jsonl`
- The finetuning script from `voicepowered-ai/VibeVoice-finetuning` was previously fetched

- Now I need to verify the training setup and get everything ready to launch the fine-tuning process.


<user_query>
mak sure u running correctly before
</user_query>


Source dirs were deleted but packages are still installed. Let me find the actual installed files and the finetuning script.


The editable installs are broken since the source dirs were deleted. Let me reinstall both from GitHub.


Both modules are broken. Need to clone and reinstall from GitHub.


Good, the script imports. Now let me check its arguments and the model.


Everything is verified and ready. Now let me launch the training.


GPU is free -- 80GB available. Let me launch the training.


Training launched. Key settings:
- **Model**: `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B`
- **LoRA**: r=16, alpha=32, all QKV/MLP layers
- **Diffusion head + connectors**: full fine-tune
- **Batch**: 2 per device × 4 gradient accumulation = effective batch 8
- **Epochs**: 2 (3325 × 2 / 8 = ~831 steps)
- **Checkpoints**: every 500 steps, keep latest 3
- **voice_prompt_drop_rate=1.0**: trains without reference audio (for `--disable_prefill` inference)

Let me check if it starts loading the model properly.


Training is running. Key stats:
- **830 total steps** (3325 samples × 2 epochs / batch 8)
- **Trainable params**: 146M (18M LoRA + 123M diffusion head + 5M connectors)
- All 3325 samples loaded successfully
- Model loaded from `tarun7r/vibevoice-hindi-1.5B`

Let me check after a minute to see training speed.


The text format isn't being parsed correctly. Let me check what the processor expects vs what we have.

The issue is with the text format. The processor expects "Speaker 0:" but let me check what the exact format should be and what our dataset has.

Let me check the `_parse_script` function to understand the expected format.


The regex looks like it should match `Speaker 0:` format. Let me check how the data is being loaded -- maybe the column mapping is wrong.

The regex `r'^Speaker\s+(\d+)\s*:\s*(.*)$'` should match "Speaker 0: text...". Let me check what the actual text field looks like. The issue might be with the JSON loading - maybe the text is being read differently.

Wait, let me look at the data loading code to see how it reads the JSONL.


The regex matches fine. The problem might be in how the audio field is handled -- the JSONL has a string path, but the dataset loader might be converting it into an audio dict. Let me look at the error trace more carefully.


Let me test the processor directly with our data to find the actual issue.

Looking at the collator, the text is passed as `[text]` to the processor. The processor then iterates over `texts` and calls `_process_single` with each text. The `_process_single` method checks if the text is a file path (ends with .json or .txt), and if not, treats it as script content directly.

The `_parse_script` method uses regex `r'^Speaker\s+(\d+)\s*:\s*(.*)$'` which should match our format. Let me test this more carefully...

Wait, looking at the data collator code, I see `text: str = ex.get(self.text_field, "")`.

The `text_field` is "text" and the dataset entry has `{"text": "Speaker 0: ...", "audio": "..."}`, but the audio field is just a string path. I'm wondering if `_load_audio_to_24k` is handling it in an unexpected way, or if the real issue is in `_parse_script` which receives the text directly. Let me trace through what happens when `load_dataset("json", ...)` processes the audio column—the HF datasets library might be doing something unusual with it.

Actually, looking at the error trace more carefully, the problem is in `_parse_script` which processes the text, not the audio. So the text itself must be getting corrupted somehow. Let me check if the script text is empty or malformed. I need to trace back through the `__call__` method to see how `texts` is being populated before it gets passed to the loop.


Parsing works fine directly. The issue must be in how HF `load_dataset("json", ...)` loads the data. It might be converting the audio column into some dict format which interferes. Let me check.


Dataset loads correctly. The text and audio are both strings as expected. The error must be occurring on a specific sample. Let me find which sample has the issue.