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

# 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")

Supported models

• Deep Voice 3: Scaling Text-to-Speech with Convolutional Sequence Learning

Examples

• Train a deepvoice 3 model with ljspeech dataset