Coqui TTS has blew my mind!

Wed Feb 9 14:40:53 UTC 2022

Thank you very much! Sounds good!

On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:23:42 +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!
> 
> 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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