New non-English voice model from scratch, need good help, please

[TheStigh]

Hi @synesthesiam and other skilled Piper's

Hi, I would like to train a good high quality voice model for Norwegian. Today, only a medium synthesis exist which is terrible to listen at for us Norwegians. Earlier, I've trained/cloned English speaking voices using English-voice checkpoints, with good results.

Now I have about 13 hours (approx 10.000 wav files, 2-10 seconds length each) of a Norwegian studio quality voice, all prepared in LJ format, ready to go. But there is so little information available online for training from scratch, so I have some questions;

• Is it the same procedure for training from scratch as fine-tuning, only change to "from scratch", and run the procedures?
• For a completely new voice, how many epoch would be a good starting point to achieving a high quality onnx?
• When I finally have a new voice (female), can I later use this voice as a checkpoint to train a new male voice (Norwegian)?
• For training a brand new Norwegian voice, is training from scratch the best option, or is still fine-tuning from an non-Norwegian checkpoint a good alternative? I want the best option.

I do have access to multiple GPU (A4000's) for the training process.

In advance, thanks for any help and support on this!