# Audio / Text-to-Speech(xtts-v2)

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**Author:** ![pykara](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/pykara/32/57232_2.png) [@pykara](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fpykara)%5C
**Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 5:46am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Faudio-text-to-speech-xtts-v2%2F170170%2F1 "2025-11-10T05:46:39Z")

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Hello,

XTTS v2 clone sounds American and stutters on long sentences. How can I get a UK accent and stable speech?

I am using **XTTS v2** for an AI-Tutor project. My reference voice is a **British English** teacher. I pass this as `speaker_wav` and set `language="en"`.

**Issues**

1. The output often sounds **US English** instead of British.

2. Some long or connected sentences **repeat or get stuck**.

**Setup**

- OS: Windows

- Python: 3.11

- TTS: 0.22.0

- Model: xtts-v2 (local)

- Inference: `language="en"`, `speaker_wav=<british_teacher.wav>`

- Data: ~75 clean clips of the same speaker (mono WAV)

**What I tried**

- Multiple short reference clips from the same speaker

- Clean audio with no music or noise

- Added full stops and commas, and split long text into shorter sentences

**Questions**

1. Is there a way to **force a UK accent** in XTTS v2 (for example a code like `en-gb`) or is accent only taken from the reference audio?

2. How much reference audio is **recommended** for better accent retention?

3. What settings help to **avoid stutters** on long sentences? Is there a best practice for sentence splitting with XTTS v2?

4. Would a **small fine-tune** on my British dataset help more than zero-shot cloning? If yes, which training recipe should I follow?

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FJohn6666)%5C
**Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 9:20am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Faudio-text-to-speech-xtts-v2%2F170170%2F2 "2025-11-10T09:20:22Z")

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If you’re [particular about accents, it might be easier to use a TTS other than XTTS-v2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/John6666/forum2/blob/main/xtts_v2_accent_1.md)…

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/original/2X/d/de4155eb4aa4108ecb32a1389d7cc37ae69f88b7.png) [@system](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsystem)%5C
**Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 5:08am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Faudio-text-to-speech-xtts-v2%2F170170%2F3 "2025-11-11T05:08:32Z")

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Closed on November 11, 2025, 5:08am UTC

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