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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.
Setup
Make sure the library libsndfile1 installed, e.g., on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libsndfile1
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("punkt")
nltk.download("cmudict")
Related Research
- 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.
- WaveFlow: A Compact Flow-based Model for Raw Audio
Examples
- Train a DeepVoice3 model with ljspeech dataset
- Train a TransformerTTS model with ljspeech dataset
- Train a FastSpeech model with ljspeech dataset
- Train a WaveFlow model with ljspeech dataset
Copyright and License
Parakeet is provided under the Apache-2.0 license.