Solo Developer Builds Crimean Tatar Speech Model From Scratch With No Dataset

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A developer spent several months building speech technology for Crimean Tatar, a low-resource language, using only a consumer GPU and working in their spare time. The project began after an off-the-shelf text-to-speech model consistently mispronounced Crimean Tatar words, effectively producing Turkish output instead. With no existing speech dataset or usable automatic speech recognition tools available, the developer bypassed the chicken-and-egg problem by using forced alignment on audiobooks, where the text already exists in print. A key technical insight was to process audio in small chapter-sized units rather than large blocks, which reduced silent failures and increased usable aligned speech from under two hours to over five. The developer also found that character-level text matching outperformed word-level comparison for the agglutinative, multi-script language, successfully locating 38 of 40 chapters.

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