This repository preserves the useful training and benchmark artifacts from the GPU run.
It does not include raw YouTube/reference audio. It includes generated validation WAVs,
training manifests, checkpoints, and the exact Python tools used for the experiments.
What Works
The audio bridge understands the Portuguese audio question and feeds Tucano coherently.
The Kokoro fast answer baseline is intelligible and reaches sub-1s first playable audio after warmup.
Qwen3 decoder/token layout is validated with ground-truth Qwen3 codes: target codes decode to intelligible PT-BR audio.
Current Limitation
The small Tucano -> Qwen3 talker is not quality-approved yet. It can produce a first chunk in about 0.8s,
but the full generated audio is not intelligible. The next technical step is improving the talker/code predictor,
not replacing the Qwen3 decoder.
Main scripts are under tools/talker_text_qwen3_tts/.
Status
This is a private experimental checkpoint. Treat the bridge and the benchmark harness as the working pieces.
Treat the Qwen3 talker checkpoints as reproducibility artifacts that need another training iteration before mobile export.