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Have you considered offering a uvx command to run to get people going quickly?
Though I think you would still need to have the Python build dependencies installed for that to work.
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Well, speech synthesizers are pretty much famous for speaking all sorts of things wrong. But what I find very concerning about LLM based TTS is that some of them cant really speak numbers greater then 100. They try, but fail a lot. At least tts-1-hd was pretty much doing this for almost every 3 or 4 digit number. Especially noticeable when it is supposed to read a year number.
Not entirely related but humans have the same problem. For scriptwriting when doing voice overs we always explicitly write out everything. So instead of 1 000 000 we would write one million or a million. This is a trivial example but if the number was 1 548 736 you will almost never be able to just read that off. However one million, five hundred and forty eight thousand, seven hundred and thirty six can just be read…
And yes, I added instructions along the lines of what you describe to my prompt. Its just sad that we have to. After all, LLM TTS has solved a bunch of real problems, like switching languages in a text, or foreign words. The pronounciation is better then anything we ever had. But it fails to read short numbers. I feel like that small issue could probably have been solved by doing some fine tuning. But I actually dont really understand the tech for it, so...
System Requirements Works literally everywhere Haha, on one of my machines my python version is too old, and the package/dependencies don't want to install. On another machie the python version is too new, and the package/dependencies don't want to install.
I tried it. Not bad for the size (of the model) and speed. Once you install all the massive number of libraries and things needed we are a far cry away from 25MB though. Cool project nonetheless.
That's a great point about the dependencies. To make the setup easier and add a few features people are asking for here (like GPU support and long text handling), I built a self-hosted server for this model: https://github.com/devnen/Kitten-TTS-Server The goal was a setup that "just works" using a standard Python virtual environment to avoid dependency conflicts. The setup is just the standard git clone, pip install…
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Python man
man python There you go.
PYTHON(1) General Commands Manual PYTHON(1)
NAME
python - an object-oriented programming language
SYNOPSIS
python [ -c command | script | - ] [ arguments ]
DESCRIPTION
Python is the standard programming language.
The headline feature isn’t the 25 MB footprint alone. It’s that KittenTTS is Apache-2.0. That combo means you can embed a fully offline voice in Pi Zero-class hardware or even battery-powered toys without worrying about GPUs, cloud calls, or restrictive licenses. In one stroke it turns voice everywhere from a hardware/licensing problem into a packaging problem. Quality tweaks can come later; unlocking that deployment…
> It’s that KittenTTS is Apache-2.0 Have you seen the code[1] in the repo? It uses phonemizer[2] which is GPL-3.0 licensed. In its current state, it's effectively GPL licensed. [1]: https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/blob/main/kittentts/on... [2]: https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer Edit: It looks like I replied to an LLM generated comment.
Morals may stop you but other than that? IMHO all open source code is public domain code if anyone is willing to spend some AI tokens.
System Requirements Works literally everywhere Haha, on one of my machines my python version is too old, and the package/dependencies don't want to install. On another machie the python version is too new, and the package/dependencies don't want to install.
System Requirements Works literally everywhere Haha, on one of my machines my python version is too old, and the package/dependencies don't want to install. On another machie the python version is too new, and the package/dependencies don't want to install.
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https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/issues/17
> IANAL, but AFAICS this leaves 2 options, switching the license or removing that dependency. There is a third option: asking the project for an exception. Though that is unlikely to be granted¹ leaving you back with just the other two options. And of course a forth choice: just ignore the license. This is the option taken by companies like Onyx, whose products I might otherwise be interested in… ---- [1] Those of us…
Any user would still effectively be bound by the GPL-3.0, but if someone can remove the GPL dependencies they could use the project under Apache