Offline Filipino Speech on iOS with Quantized VoxCPM2

QnVoice bundles quantized VoxCPM2 for Filipino text-to-speech on iOS. In a matched 20-prompt desktop comparison with the app’s earlier SpeechT5 system, Whisper’s character error rate fell from 15.40% to 8.54%, while word error stayed above 50% for both systems. On an iPhone 15 Pro, median time to playback readiness for five warm requests fell from 7.87 s to 2.48 s after changes to the vocoder and reference encoding. The optimized runtime took 13.63 s on the first request after the synthesis session was released. In a separate Mac comparison, the vocoder change preserved the sample count for each of six paired renders, with a maximum per-clip root mean square difference of 1.36 × 10⁻⁵ of full scale. Perceived naturalness remains a question for Filipino listeners.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-11-07
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24022271
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Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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Offline Filipino Speech on iOS with Quantized VoxCPM2

Ona Pacholo Asis
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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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Offline Filipino Speech on iOS with Quantized VoxCPM2

Ona Pacholo Asis
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Abstract

QnVoice bundles quantized VoxCPM2 for Filipino text-to-speech on iOS. In a matched 20-prompt desktop comparison with the app’s earlier SpeechT5 system, Whisper’s character error rate fell from 15.40% to 8.54%, while word error stayed above 50% for both systems. On an iPhone 15 Pro, median time to playback readiness for five warm requests fell from 7.87 s to 2.48 s after changes to the vocoder and reference encoding. The optimized runtime took 13.63 s on the first request after the synthesis session was released. In a separate Mac comparison, the vocoder change preserved the sample count for each of six paired renders, with a maximum per-clip root mean square difference of 1.36 × 10⁻⁵ of full scale. Perceived naturalness remains a question for Filipino listeners.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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