pip install for only converting text to speech?

[mcc324]

I'm on Debian and tried pip install TTS. About 80 packages installed fine. After that I see that it wants to install a lot of large nvidia packages. Do I need those? I'm trying to only convert text to speech, no creating or training voices. Is there a way to install only what I need for my purpose?
thanks

[eginhard]

The Nvidia/CUDA packages are also needed for inference on a GPU, which is much faster than on CPU, so you might still want to install them. Otherwise you could also install just the CPU-version of Pytorch with their instructions: https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/

I'd also suggest to install our fork instead (with pip install coqui-tts), which is still maintained unlike this repo. The number of mandatory dependencies to install has also been reduced there (but it still installs the CUDA packages).

[mcc324]

ok. I'll try the other fork. Is there a list of the Nvidia / cuda dependencies that I can look at first?

[eginhard]

They are all transitive dependencies that come through Pytorch, so there is no list in Coqui, but Pytorch 2.4.1 has the following dependencies for me:

[[package]]
name = "torch"
version = "2.4.1"
source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
dependencies = [
    { name = "filelock" },
    { name = "fsspec" },
    { name = "jinja2" },
    { name = "networkx" },
    { name = "nvidia-cublas-cu12", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "nvidia-cudnn-cu12", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "nvidia-cufft-cu12", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "nvidia-curand-cu12", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "nvidia-cusolver-cu12", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "nvidia-cusparse-cu12", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "nvidia-nccl-cu12", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "nvidia-nvtx-cu12", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "sympy" },
    { name = "triton", marker = "platform_machine == 'x86_64' and platform_system == 'Linux'" },
    { name = "typing-extensions" },
]