From ca809df71f94ce713eb3d44017ec34ae50021813 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zhaokexin01 <zhaokexin01@baidu.com> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 08:47:07 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ff46a3b..f32b730 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ # 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](http://research.baidu.com) and other academic institutions. +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 PaddlePaddle Fluid dynamic graph and includes many influential TTS models proposed by [Baidu Research](http://research.baidu.com) and other research groups. + +In particular, it features the latest [WaveFlow] (https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01219) model proposed by Baidu Research. WaveFlow is a small-footprint generative flow for raw audio, which is directly trained with maximum likelihood. It generates high-fidelity speech as WaveNet, while synthesizing serval orders of magnitude faster as it only requires a few sequential steps to generate very long waveforms. Furthermore, it can significantly reduce the likelihood gap that has existed between autoregressive models and flow-based models for efficient synthesis. Finally, our small-footprint WaveFlow has +only 5.9M parameters, which is 15 times smaller than WaveGlow. It can generate 22.05 kHz high-fidelity audio around 40 times faster than real-time on a V100 GPU without engineered inference kernels. <div align="center"> <img src="images/logo.png" width=450 /> <br> @@ -8,7 +11,7 @@ Parakeet aims to provide a flexible, efficient and state-of-the-art text-to-spee ### Setup -Make sure the library `libsndfile1` installed, e.g., on Ubuntu +Make sure the library `libsndfile1` is installed, e.g., on Ubuntu. ```bash sudo apt-get install libsndfile1 @@ -16,7 +19,7 @@ sudo apt-get install libsndfile1 ### Install PaddlePaddle -See [install](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/install/quick) for more details. This repo requires paddlepaddle's version is above 1.7. +See [install](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/install/quick) for more details. This repo requires paddlepaddle 1.7 or above. ### Install Parakeet