walston/joycent-medium-grl

Joycent trained with WhisAID Medium GRL accent embeddings

This is a Joycent Mandarin accent TTS acoustic model trained using accent embeddings extracted by walston/whisaid-medium-grl. The released checkpoint is epoch 100.

• Paper: Joycent: Diffusion-based Accent TTS without Accented Phone Prediction
• Code: oshindow/Joycent-code
• Accent encoder: walston/whisaid-medium-grl
• Vocoder: walston/joycent-vocoder

Download

from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

checkpoint_path = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="walston/joycent-medium-grl",
    filename="grad_100.pt",
)

Pass the downloaded checkpoint to joycent/inference_joycent.py with the --acoustic-checkpoint argument. Full synthesis also requires the Joycent vocoder and reference-audio feature extraction dependencies described in the Joycent repository.

Checkpoint

• Epoch: 100
• Acoustic model: Joycent / Grad-TTS
• Accent embedding model: WhisAID Whisper Medium GRL (lambda 0.05)
• Accent embedding dimension: 256

Citation

@misc{wang2026joycentdiffusionbasedaccenttts,
      title={Joycent: Diffusion-based Accent TTS without Accented Phone Prediction},
      author={Xintong Wang and Ye Wang},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2606.16417},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.SD},
}