ParsVoice: A Large-Scale Multi-Speaker Persian Speech Corpus for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Persian remains substantially underrepresented in open speech-text resources, limiting progress in multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS), speech-language modelling, and low-resource speech processing. We introduce ParsVoice, the largest publicly available Persian speech-text corpus tailored for training multi-speaker TTS systems, along with a scalable pipeline to construct high-quality speech-text data from long-form audiobook recordings. The pipeline combines a fine-tuned ParsBERT sentence-completion classifier, ASR-based boundary optimization, punctuation restoration, speaker identification, and a multi-dimensional quality assessment that covers both audio and Persian-specific text properties. The resulting release contains a 2,200-hour TTS-ready subset with 1.36 million aligned segments from 1,815 automatically identified speaker IDs, making it more than 25 times larger than the previously largest open Persian TTS dataset. To validate the corpus, we fine-tune XTTS, a zero-shot multilingual TTS model that operates directly on raw Persian text without phoneme representations, achieving a naturalness MOS of 3.6/5 and speaker similarity MOS of 4.0/5. The ParsVoice dataset is publicly available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/MohammadJRanjbar/ParsVoice.