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TTS: Text-to-Speech for all.
TTS is a library for advanced Text-to-Speech generation. It's built on the latest research, was designed to achieve the best trade-off among ease-of-training, speed and quality.
TTS comes with pretrained models, tools for measuring dataset quality and already used in 20+ languages for products and research projects.
📢 English Voice Samples and SoundCloud playlist
👨🍳 TTS training recipes
📄 Text-to-Speech paper collection
💬 Where to ask questions
Please use our dedicated channels for questions and discussion. Help is much more valuable if it's shared publicly, so that more people can benefit from it.
Type
Platforms
🚨 Bug Reports
GitHub Issue Tracker
❔ FAQ
TTS/Wiki
🎁 Feature Requests & Ideas
GitHub Issue Tracker
👩💻 Usage Questions
Discourse Forum
🗯 General Discussion
Discourse Forum and Matrix Channel
🔗 Links and Resources
Type
Links
💾 Installation
TTS/README.md
👩🏾🏫 Tutorials and Examples
TTS/Wiki
🚀 Released Models
TTS/Wiki
💻 Docker Image
Repository by @synesthesiam
🖥️ Demo Server
TTS/server
🤖 Running TTS on Terminal
TTS/README.md
✨ How to contribute
TTS/README.md
🥇 TTS Performance
"Mozilla*" and "Judy*" are our models.
Details...
Features
High performance Deep Learning models for Text2Speech tasks.
Text2Spec models (Tacotron, Tacotron2, Glow-TTS, SpeedySpeech).
Speaker Encoder to compute speaker embeddings efficiently.
Vocoder models (MelGAN, Multiband-MelGAN, GAN-TTS, ParallelWaveGAN, WaveGrad, WaveRNN)
Fast and efficient model training.
Detailed training logs on console and Tensorboard.
Support for multi-speaker TTS.
Efficient Multi-GPUs training.
Ability to convert PyTorch models to Tensorflow 2.0 and TFLite for inference.
Released models in PyTorch, Tensorflow and TFLite.
Tools to curate Text2Speech datasets underdataset_analysis.
Demo server for model testing.
Notebooks for extensive model benchmarking.
Modular (but not too much) code base enabling easy testing for new ideas.
Implemented Models
Text-to-Spectrogram
Tacotron: paper
Tacotron2: paper
Glow-TTS: paper
Speedy-Speech: paper
Attention Methods
Guided Attention: paper
Forward Backward Decoding: paper
Graves Attention: paper
Double Decoder Consistency: blog
Speaker Encoder
GE2E: paper
Angular Loss: paper
Vocoders
MelGAN: paper
MultiBandMelGAN: paper
ParallelWaveGAN: paper
GAN-TTS discriminators: paper
WaveRNN: origin
WaveGrad: paper
You can also help us implement more models. Some TTS related work can be found here.
Install TTS
TTS supports python >= 3.6, <3.9.
If you are only interested in synthesizing speech with the released TTS models, installing from PyPI is the easiest option.
pip install TTS
If you plan to code or train models, clone TTS and install it locally.
git clone https://github.com/mozilla/TTS
pip install -e .
Directory Structure
|- notebooks/ (Jupyter Notebooks for model evaluation, parameter selection and data analysis.)
|- utils/ (common utilities.)
|- TTS
|- bin/ (folder for all the executables.)
|- train*.py (train your target model.)
|- distribute.py (train your TTS model using Multiple GPUs.)
|- compute_statistics.py (compute dataset statistics for normalization.)
|- convert*.py (convert target torch model to TF.)
|- tts/ (text to speech models)
|- layers/ (model layer definitions)
|- models/ (model definitions)
|- tf/ (Tensorflow 2 utilities and model implementations)
|- utils/ (model specific utilities.)
|- speaker_encoder/ (Speaker Encoder models.)
|- (same)
|- vocoder/ (Vocoder models.)
|- (same)
Sample Model Output
Below you see Tacotron model state after 16K iterations with batch-size 32 with LJSpeech dataset.
"Recent research at Harvard has shown meditating for as little as 8 weeks can actually increase the grey matter in the parts of the brain responsible for emotional regulation and learning."
Audio examples: soundcloud
Datasets and Data-Loading
TTS provides a generic dataloader easy to use for your custom dataset.
You just need to write a simple function to format the dataset. Check datasets/preprocess.py to see some examples.
After that, you need to set dataset fields in config.json.
Some of the public datasets that we successfully applied TTS:
LJ Speech
Nancy
TWEB
M-AI-Labs
LibriTTS
Spanish - thx! @carlfm01
Example: Synthesizing Speech on Terminal Using the Released Models.
After the installation, TTS provides a CLI interface for synthesizing speech using pre-trained models. You can either use your own model or the release models under the TTS project.
Listing released TTS models.
tts --list_models
Run a tts and a vocoder model from the released model list. (Simply copy and paste the full model names from the list as arguments for the command below.)
tts --text "Text for TTS" \
--model_name "<type>/<language>/<dataset>/<model_name>" \
--vocoder_name "<type>/<language>/<dataset>/<model_name>" \
--out_path folder/to/save/output/
Run your own TTS model (Using Griffin-Lim Vocoder)
tts --text "Text for TTS" \
--model_path path/to/model.pth.tar \
--config_path path/to/config.json \
--out_path output/path/speech.wav
Run your own TTS and Vocoder models
tts --text "Text for TTS" \
--model_path path/to/config.json \
--config_path path/to/model.pth.tar \
--out_path output/path/speech.wav \
--vocoder_path path/to/vocoder.pth.tar \
--vocoder_config_path path/to/vocoder_config.json
Note: You can use ./TTS/bin/synthesize.py if you prefer running tts from the TTS project folder.
Example: Training and Fine-tuning LJ-Speech Dataset
Here you can find a CoLab notebook for a hands-on example, training LJSpeech. Or you can manually follow the guideline below.
To start with, split metadata.csv into train and validation subsets respectively metadata_train.csv
Read the full README on GitHub