This project is a part of Mozilla Common Voice.

Mozilla TTS aims a deep learning based Text2Speech engine, low in cost and high in quality.

You can check some of synthesized voice samples from here.

If you are new, you can also find here a brief post about some of TTS architectures and here list of up-to-date research papers.

TTS Performance

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Provided Models and Methods

Text-to-Spectrogram:

• Tacotron: paper
• Tacotron2: paper

Attention Methods:

• Guided Attention: paper
• Forward Backward Decoding: paper
• Graves Attention: paper
• Double Decoder Consistency: blog

Speaker Encoder:

• GE2E: paper

Vocoders:

• MelGAN: paper
• MultiBandMelGAN: paper
• GAN-TTS discriminators: paper

You can also help us implement more models. Some TTS related work can be found here.

Features

• High performance Deep Learning models for Text2Speech tasks.
  • Text2Spec models (Tacotron, Tacotron2).
  • Speaker Encoder to compute speaker embeddings efficiently.
  • Vocoder models (MelGAN, Multiband-MelGAN, GAN-TTS, ParallelWaveGAN)
• 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.

Main Requirements and Installation

Highly recommended to use miniconda for easier installation.

• python>=3.6
• pytorch>=1.4.1
• tensorflow>=2.2
• librosa
• tensorboard
• tensorboardX
• matplotlib
• unidecode

Install TTS using setup.py. It will install all of the requirements automatically and make TTS available to all the python environment as an ordinary python module.

python setup.py develop

Or you can use requirements.txt to install the requirements only.

pip install -r requirements.txt

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)

Docker

A docker image is created by @synesthesiam and shared in a separate repository with the latest LJSpeech models.

Release Models

Please visit our wiki.

Sample Model Output

Below you see Tacotron model state after 16K iterations with batch-size 32 with LJSpeech dataset.

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Audio examples: soundcloud

Mozilla TTS Tutorials and Notebooks

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

Training and Fine-tuning LJ-Speech

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 and metadata_val.csv. Note that for text-to-speech, validation performance might be misleading since the loss value does not directly measure the voice quality to the human ear and it also does not measure the attention module performance. Therefore, running the model with new sentences and listening to the results is the best way to go.

shuf metadata.csv > metadata_shuf.csv
head -n 12000 metadata_shuf.csv > metadata_train.csv
tail -n 1100 metadata_shuf.csv > metadata_val.csv

To train a new model, you need to define your own config.json file (check the example) and call with the command below. You also set the model architecture in config.json.

python TTS/bin/train.py --config_path TTS/tts/configs/config.json

To fine-tune a model, use --restore_path.

python TTS/bin/train.py --config_path TTS/tts/configs/config.json --restore_path /path/to/your/model.pth.tar

To continue an old training run, use --continue_path.

python TTS/bin/train.py --continue_path /path/to/your/run_folder/

For multi-GPU training use distribute.py. It enables process based multi-GPU training where each process uses a single GPU.

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0,1,4" TTS/bin/distribute.py --config_path TTS/tts/configs/config.json

Each run creates a new output folder and config.json is copied under this folder.

In case of any error or intercepted execution, if there is no checkpoint yet under the output folder, the whole folder is going to be removed.

You can also enjoy Tensorboard, if you point Tensorboard argument--logdir to the experiment folder.

Contribution guidelines

This repository is governed by Mozilla's code of conduct and etiquette guidelines. For more details, please read the Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines.

Please send your Pull Request to dev branch. Before making a Pull Request, check your changes for basic mistakes and style problems by using a linter. We have cardboardlinter setup in this repository, so for example, if you've made some changes and would like to run the linter on just the changed code, you can use the follow command:

pip install pylint cardboardlint
cardboardlinter --refspec master

Collaborative Experimentation Guide

If you like to use TTS to try a new idea and like to share your experiments with the community, we urge you to use the following guideline for a better collaboration. (If you have an idea for better collaboration, let us know)

• Create a new branch.
• Open an issue pointing your branch.
• Explain your experiment.
• Share your results as you proceed. (Tensorboard log files, audio results, visuals etc.)
• Use LJSpeech dataset (for English) if you like to compare results with the released models. (It is the most open scalable dataset for quick experimentation)

Contact/Getting Help

Major TODOs

• Implement the model.
• Generate human-like speech on LJSpeech dataset.
• Generate human-like speech on a different dataset (Nancy) (TWEB).
• Train TTS with r=1 successfully.
• Enable process based distributed training. Similar to (https://github.com/fastai/imagenet-fast/).
• Adapting Neural Vocoder. TTS works with WaveRNN and ParallelWaveGAN (https://github.com/erogol/WaveRNN and https://github.com/erogol/ParallelWaveGAN)
• Multi-speaker embedding.
• Model optimization (model export, model pruning etc.)

References

• https://github.com/keithito/tacotron (Dataset pre-processing)
• https://github.com/r9y9/tacotron_pytorch (Initial Tacotron architecture)
• https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN (vocoder library)