Parakeet/README.md

Parakeet

Parakeet aims to provide a flexible, efficient and state-of-the-art text-to-speech toolkit for the open-source community. It is built on Paddle Fluid dynamic graph, with the support of many influential TTS models proposed by Baidu Research and other academic institutions.

Installation

Install Paddlepaddle

See install for more details. This repo requires paddlepaddle's version is above 1.7.

Install Parakeet

# git clone this repo first
cd Parakeet
pip install -e .

Install CMUdict for nltk

CMUdict from nltk is used to transform text into phonemes.

import nltk
nltk.download("cmudict")

If you have completed all the above installations, but still report an error at runtime：

OSError: sndfile library not found

You need to install libsndfile using your distribution’s package manager. e.g. install via:

sudo apt-get install libsndfile1

Supported models

• Deep Voice 3: Scaling Text-to-Speech with Convolutional Sequence Learning
• Neural Speech Synthesis with Transformer Network
• FastSpeech: Fast, Robust and Controllable Text to Speech.

Examples

• Train a deepvoice 3 model with ljspeech dataset
• Train a transformer_tts model with ljspeech dataset
• Train a fastspeech model with ljspeech dataset