Re:Coqui TTS: a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech
by userbinator on Monday August 08, 2022 @09:32AM
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The TTS performance graph is interesting but it would be even better to add another dimension for comparing their resource consumption (code size, RAM, CPU usage/speed). For example, if "Windows Male" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_text-to-speech_voice... then it's an offline-only synthesiser that is relatively small and fast, while the Google ones are probably massive neural models that are only available as a service. Yet their speech performance seems to be quite similar according to that chart.
Re:Coqui TTS: a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech
by snehesht on Monday August 08, 2022 @09:38AM
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This is pretty cool, I tried this, takes around 5 secs to generate the audio for a couple of sentences with my old 1080Ti.
I've been using Google TTS for generating audio for my reading list, this would be good time to build a simple api+worker wrapper around this and integrate into my app.
Re:Coqui TTS: a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech
by bradknowles on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:03AM
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Those damn frogs have killed the housing market in large parts of Hawaii. You just can't get to sleep with all that damn noise!
And that makes you a danger on the road when you're driving and you haven't been able to sleep for an entire freaking week, or maybe even a month or more.
Who would have thought so much damn noise could come from such a tiny frog!
Re:Coqui TTS: a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech
by TheWellKnownEIP on Monday August 08, 2022 @09:49AM
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Coincidentally I've just started playing around with Coqui TTS for training on my own experimental datasets. I was naive enough to think I could get it to run on Windows instead of Linux, I would suggest you save yourselves the time and start from Linux if you're giving it a go!
Re:Coqui TTS: a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech
by pwillia7 on Monday August 08, 2022 @09:53AM
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All 'deep learning' things eventually fail on Windows for me. I almost got an AI image model repo setup on windows but ONE package for indexing is only available on Linux.... oh well time to redo it all
Re:Coqui TTS: a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech
by TheWellKnownEIP on Monday August 08, 2022 @09:58AM
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The repo itself has good tutorials under the notebooks/ folder to get started with training and generating synthesized voices. Check out
"Tutorial_2_train_your_first_TTS_model" you could start there.
FYI the format that they expect in metadata.csv has changed over time, it used to be "filename|transcribed text" and now it expects "filename|speaker name|transcribed text" but that's not reflected in the notebook.
I've been using Google TTS for generating audio for my reading list, this would be good time to build a simple api+worker wrapper around this and integrate into my app.
Mimic is another one
https://mimic.mycroft.ai/
Anyone who has ever fallen asleep anywhere in Puerto Rico will probably be quite familiar.
I used Coqui TTS a few months ago to roll my own speech controlled desktop in an hour or so, very cool stuff.
And that makes you a danger on the road when you're driving and you haven't been able to sleep for an entire freaking week, or maybe even a month or more.
Who would have thought so much damn noise could come from such a tiny frog!
[1] https://github.com/mozilla/TTS [2] https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/tree/e9e07844b77a43fb0864354...
FYI the format that they expect in metadata.csv has changed over time, it used to be "filename|transcribed text" and now it expects "filename|speaker name|transcribed text" but that's not reflected in the notebook.