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wenet
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Open Source Libraries
wenet-e2e/wenet
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Deploying speech recognition models at scale
Try wenet wenet
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Ask HN: Are there any good open source Text-to-Speech tools?
For STT, take a look at Wenet: https://github.com/wenet-e2e/wenet
They provide support for running in a Raspberry Pi and it runs in real-time. I have tried the desktop version and the quality is good enough when the audio is clean.
- Project Alice β an open source virtual assistant that can run offline
- Wenet results on Gigaspeech - on par with best results (Espnet). Pretrained model is available .
tortoise-tts
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ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
The quality also depends on the type of model. I'm not really sure what ESpeak-ng actually uses? The classical TTS approaches often use some statistical model (e.g. HMM) + some vocoder. You can get to intelligible speech pretty easily but the quality is bad (w.r.t. how natural it sounds).
There are better open source TTS models. E.g. check https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts or https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2. Or here for more: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/12kjof5/d_...
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 12 February 2024
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OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning
I use Tortoise TTS. It's slow, a little clunky, and sometimes the output gets downright weird. But it's the best quality-oriented TTS I've found that I can run locally.
https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
- [discussion] text to voice generation for textbooks
- DALL-E 3: Improving image generation with better captions [pdf]
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Open Source Libraries
neonbjb/tortoise-tts
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Running Tortoise-TTS - IndexError: List out of range
EDIT: It appears to be the exact same issue as this
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My Deep Learning Rig
It was primarily being used to train TTS models (see https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts), which largely fit into a single GPUs memory. So, for data parallelism, x8 PCIe isn't that much of a concern.
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PlayHT2.0: State-of-the-Art Generative Voice AI Model for Conversational Speech
Previously TortoiseTTS was associated with PlayHT in some way, although the exact connection is a bit vague [0].
From the descriptions here it sounds a lot like AudioLM / SPEAR TTS / some of Meta's recent multilingual TTS approaches, although those models are not open source, sounds like PlayHT's approach is in a similar spirit. The discussion of "mel tokens" is closer to what I would call the classic TTS pipeline in many ways... PlayHT has generally been kind of closed about what they used, would be interesting to know more.
I assume the key factor here is high quality, emotive audio with good data cleaning processes. Probably not even a lot of data, at least in the scale of "a lot" in speech, e.g. ASR (millions of hours) or TTS (hundreds to thousands). As opposed to some radically new architectural piece never before seen in the literature, there are lots of really nice tools for emotive and expressive TTS buried in recent years of publications.
Tacotron 2 is perfectly capable of this type of stuff as well, as shown by Dessa [1] a few years ago (this writeup is a nice intro to TTS concepts). With the limit largely being, at some point you haven't heard certain phonetic sounds before in a voice, and need to do something to get plausible outcomes for new voices.
[0] Discussion here https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts/issues/182#issuecomm...
[1] https://medium.com/dessa-news/realtalk-how-it-works-94c1afda...
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Comparing Tortoise and Bark for Voice Synthesis
Tortoise GitHub repo - Source code, documentation, and usage guide
What are some alternatives?
vosk-api - Offline speech recognition API for Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and servers with Python, Java, C# and Node
TTS - πΈπ¬ - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production
silero-models - Silero Models: pre-trained speech-to-text, text-to-speech and text-enhancement models made embarrassingly simple
bark - π Text-Prompted Generative Audio Model
FasterTransformer - Transformer related optimization, including BERT, GPT
Real-Time-Voice-Cloning - Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time
whisper - Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
piper - A fast, local neural text to speech system
fstalign - An efficient OpenFST-based tool for calculating WER and aligning two transcript sequences.
tacotron2 - Tacotron 2 - PyTorch implementation with faster-than-realtime inference
functorch - functorch is a prototype of JAX-like composable function transforms for PyTorch. [Moved to: https://github.com/pytorch/functorch]
larynx - End to end text to speech system using gruut and onnx