Coqui TTS has blew my mind!

Wed Feb 9 14:23:42 UTC 2022

Hi,

There is a Chinese voice, you can use:

$ tts --model_name tts_models/zh-CN/baker/tacotron2-DDC-GST --text ""

Best regards

Rastislav

Dňa 9. 2. 2022 o 14:09 Linux for blind general discussion napísal(a):
> Sorry! My English is not well. How to let it speakChinese? Please give a
> sample of command-line. Thank you!
>
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:59:26 +0000
>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: Coqui TTS has blew my mind!
>>
>> Hello Chrys,
>>
>> I think the problem is that Python 3.10 is not supported as of now.
>>
>> https://pypi.org/project/TTS/
>>
>>
>> Though I'm not sure why. May be some of the backing libraries are not
>> yet compatible, I remember this being a problem in the past with new
>> releases of TensorFlow.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps a virtual environment with lower Python version could do the trick?
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>>
>> Rastislav
>>
>>
>> Dňa 9. 2. 2022 o 11:48 Linux for blind general discussion napísal(a):
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> just want to try coqui again (after a while) and just got this:
>>> $ pip3 install TTS
>>> Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not
>>> writeable
>>> ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement TTS
>>> ERROR: No matching distribution found for TTS
>>>
>>> any ideas?
>>>
>>> cheers chrys
>>>
>>> Am 09.02.22 um 11:40 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
>>>> Howdy Rastislav,
>>>>
>>>> yea Coqui is awsome. it was initial part of mozillas TTS and STT efforts.
>>>> we really should have  an speech-dispatcher driver for that :).
>>>>
>>>> by the way, keep up your great work! Just take a look at the C#
>>>> speech-dispatcher bindings.
>>>>
>>>> cheers chrys
>>>>
>>>> Am 09.02.22 um 11:25 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> may be I've discovered America, but yesterday I mostly randomly came
>>>>> across:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://erogol.github.io/ddc-samples/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And the voice has completely blew my mind!
>>>>>
>>>>> Like, I knew the TTS area has advanced significantly in the recent
>>>>> years, but I thought the new neural voices are mostly closed features of
>>>>> companies like Google or Microsoft.
>>>>>
>>>>> I had no idea we had something so beautiful on linux and completely
>>>>> open-source!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Plus, it's not just the license that makes this so interesting, but also
>>>>> the usability.
>>>>>
>>>>> There were the Deepmind papers even before and some open projects trying
>>>>> to implement them, but the level of completeness and usability varied
>>>>> significantly, even if a project was usable, getting it to work required
>>>>> some effort (at least the projects I saw).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> With Coqui, the situation is completely differrent.
>>>>>
>>>>> As the above mentioned blog says, all you need to do is:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> $ pip3 install TTS
>>>>>
>>>>> $ tts --text "Hello, this is an experimental sentence."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And you have a synthesized result!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Or you can launch the server:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ tts-server
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And play in the web browser. Note that the audio is sent only after it's
>>>>> fully synthesized, so you'll need to wait a bit to listen it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The only problematic part is the limit of decoder steps, which is set to
>>>>> 500 by default.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure why did they put it so low, with this value, the TTS is
>>>>> unable to speak longer sentences.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Fortunately, the fix is very easy. All I needed to do was to open
>>>>> ~/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/TTS/tts/configs/tacotron_config.py
>>>>>
>>>>> and modify the line:
>>>>>
>>>>>         max_decoder_steps: int = 500
>>>>>
>>>>> to
>>>>>
>>>>>         max_decoder_steps: int = 0
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> which seems to disable the limit.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> After this step, I can synthesize very long sentences, and the quality
>>>>> is absolutely glamorous!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So I wanted to share. I may be actually the last person discoverying it
>>>>> here, though I did not see it mentioned in TTS discussions on this list.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've even thought about creating a speech dispatcher version of this. It
>>>>> would certainly be doable, though I'm afraid what would the synthesis
>>>>> sound like with the irregularities of navigation with a screenreader.
>>>>> These voices are intended for reading longer texts and consistent
>>>>> phrases, with punctuation, complete information etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> The intonation would probably get a bit weird with for example just a
>>>>> half sentence, as happens when navigating a document or webpage line by
>>>>> line.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Another limitation would be the one of speed. On my laptop, the realtime
>>>>> factor (processing duration / audio length) is around 0.8, what means it
>>>>> could handle real-time synthesis at the default speed without delays.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The situation would get more complicated with higher speeds, though.
>>>>>
>>>>> It wouldn't be impossible, but one would need a GPU to handle
>>>>> significantly higher speech rates.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So I wonder.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> But anyway, this definitely made my day. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Rastislav
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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