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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 .
Setup
Make sure libsndfile1 installed:
sudo apt-get install libsndfile1
Install CMUdict for nltk
CMUdict from nltk is used to transform text into phonemes.
import nltk
nltk.download("punkt")
nltk.download("cmudict")
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.