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facebook/mms-tts-sna

Shona(sna)TTSMMS VITSEncoder-Decoder (VITS)
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Model Info

Language
Shona (sna)
Architecture
Encoder-Decoder (VITS)
Institution
Pratap, Vineel et al. (Meta AI)
Last Updated
17 Jun 2026

Intended Use Cases

TTS (1107+ languages)

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-NC-4.0

Open with restrictions — attribution required; some commercial or derivative use limited.

Provenance

Fetch Timestamp
17 Jun 2026
Submitter
Pratap, Vineel et al. (Meta AI)

Full Record

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Registry columns (17/18)

iso code
sna
Model Name
facebook/mms-tts-sna
Where is it hosted
HuggingFace
Link
https://huggingface.co/facebook/mms-tts-sna
Year
2023
Creator/Author(s)
Pratap, Vineel et al. (Meta AI)
Paper Reference
Pratap et al. (2023) Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages. arXiv:2305.13516
NLP Task
TTS
Architecture
Encoder-Decoder (VITS)
Base Model
MMS VITS
Fine-tuned?
Yes
License
CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
Open
Has Model Card
Yes
SOTA Tasks
TTS (1107+ languages)
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-06-17
Comment
Shona (sna) TTS from Meta MMS. ~15M speakers, official language of Zimbabwe.

Readiness (LRS) (3/7)

model id
facebook-mms-tts-sna-sna
Model Type
TTSderivedHugging Face card: pipeline_tag
Training Data Sources
New Testament audio (FCBH/bible-nlp)
Benchmark Used
Not stated
Benchmark Score
Not stated
Benchmark Date
Not stated
Status
Not stated

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation87%
Recency100%

Representativeness

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Dialect Coverage
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