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### Local Installation
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If you want to use this on your own computer, you must have an NVIDIA GPU.
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If you want to use this on your own computer, you must have an NVIDIA GPU.
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First, install pytorch using these instructions: [https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/).
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On Windows, I **highly** recommend using the Conda installation path. I have been told that if you do not do this, you
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python tortoise/read.py --textfile <your text to be read> --voice random
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```
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This will break up the textfile into sentences, and then convert them to speech one at a time. It will output a series
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This will break up the textfile into sentences, and then convert them to speech one at a time. It will output a series
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of spoken clips as they are generated. Once all the clips are generated, it will combine them into a single file and
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output that as well.
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```python
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reference_clips = [utils.audio.load_audio(p, 22050) for p in clips_paths]
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tts = api.TextToSpeech()
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pcm_audio = tts.tts_with_preset("your text here", reference_clips, preset='fast')
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pcm_audio = tts.tts_with_preset("your text here", voice_samples=reference_clips, preset='fast')
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```
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## Voice customization guide
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### Random voice
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I've included a feature which randomly generates a voice. These voices don't actually exist and will be random every time you run
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I've included a feature which randomly generates a voice. These voices don't actually exist and will be random every time you run
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it. The results are quite fascinating and I recommend you play around with it!
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You can use the random voice by passing in 'random' as the voice name. Tortoise will take care of the rest.
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### Playing with the voice latent
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Tortoise ingests reference clips by feeding them through individually through a small submodel that produces a point latent,
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then taking the mean of all of the produced latents. The experimentation I have done has indicated that these point latents
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Tortoise ingests reference clips by feeding them through individually through a small submodel that produces a point latent,
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then taking the mean of all of the produced latents. The experimentation I have done has indicated that these point latents
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are quite expressive, affecting everything from tone to speaking rate to speech abnormalities.
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This lends itself to some neat tricks. For example, you can combine feed two different voices to tortoise and it will output
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This lends itself to some neat tricks. For example, you can combine feed two different voices to tortoise and it will output
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what it thinks the "average" of those two voices sounds like.
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#### Generating conditioning latents from voices
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## Model architecture
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Tortoise TTS is inspired by OpenAI's DALLE, applied to speech data and using a better decoder. It is made up of 5 separate
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Tortoise TTS is inspired by OpenAI's DALLE, applied to speech data and using a better decoder. It is made up of 5 separate
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models that work together. I've assembled a write-up of the system architecture here:
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[https://nonint.com/2022/04/25/tortoise-architectural-design-doc/](https://nonint.com/2022/04/25/tortoise-architectural-design-doc/)
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## Training
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These models were trained on my "homelab" server with 8 RTX 3090s over the course of several months. They were trained on a dataset consisting of
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These models were trained on my "homelab" server with 8 RTX 3090s over the course of several months. They were trained on a dataset consisting of
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~50k hours of speech data, most of which was transcribed by [ocotillo](http://www.github.com/neonbjb/ocotillo). Training was done on my own
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[DLAS](https://github.com/neonbjb/DL-Art-School) trainer.
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The largest model in Tortoise v2 is considerably smaller than GPT-2 large. It is 20x smaller that the original DALLE transformer.
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Imagine what a TTS model trained at or near GPT-3 or DALLE scale could achieve.
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If you are an ethical organization with computational resources to spare interested in seeing what this model could do
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If you are an ethical organization with computational resources to spare interested in seeing what this model could do
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if properly scaled out, please reach out to me! I would love to collaborate on this.
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## Acknowledgements
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