# TorToiSe Tortoise is a text-to-speech program built with the following priorities: 1. Strong multi-voice capabilities. 2. Highly realistic prosody and intonation. This repo contains all the code needed to run Tortoise TTS in inference mode. Manuscript: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07243 ## Hugging Face space A live demo is hosted on Hugging Face Spaces. If you'd like to avoid a queue, please duplicate the Space and add a GPU. Please note that CPU-only spaces do not work for this demo. https://huggingface.co/spaces/Manmay/tortoise-tts ## Install via pip ```bash pip install tortoise-tts ``` If you would like to install the latest development version, you can also install it directly from the git repository: ```bash pip install git+https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts ``` ## What's in a name? I'm naming my speech-related repos after Mojave desert flora and fauna. Tortoise is a bit tongue in cheek: this model is insanely slow. It leverages both an autoregressive decoder **and** a diffusion decoder; both known for their low sampling rates. On a K80, expect to generate a medium sized sentence every 2 minutes. well..... not so slow anymore now we can get a **0.25-0.3 RTF** on 4GB vram and with streaming we can get < **500 ms** latency !!! ## Demos See [this page](http://nonint.com/static/tortoise_v2_examples.html) for a large list of example outputs. A cool application of Tortoise + GPT-3 (not affiliated with this repository): https://twitter.com/lexman_ai. Unfortunately, this proejct seems no longer to be active. ## Usage guide ### Local installation If you want to use this on your own computer, you must have an NVIDIA GPU. On Windows, I **highly** recommend using the Conda installation path. I have been told that if you do not do this, you will spend a lot of time chasing dependency problems. First, install miniconda: https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html Then run the following commands, using anaconda prompt as the terminal (or any other terminal configured to work with conda) This will: 1. create conda environment with minimal dependencies specified 1. activate the environment 1. install pytorch with the command provided here: https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/ 1. clone tortoise-tts 1. change the current directory to tortoise-tts 1. run tortoise python setup install script ```shell conda create --name tortoise python=3.9 numba inflect conda activate tortoise conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio pytorch-cuda=11.7 -c pytorch -c nvidia conda install transformers=4.29.2 git clone https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts.git cd tortoise-tts python setup.py install ``` Optionally, pytorch can be installed in the base environment, so that other conda environments can use it too. To do this, simply send the `conda install pytorch...` line before activating the tortoise environment. > **Note:** When you want to use tortoise-tts, you will always have to ensure the `tortoise` conda environment is activated. If you are on windows, you may also need to install pysoundfile: `conda install -c conda-forge pysoundfile` ### Docker An easy way to hit the ground running and a good jumping off point depending on your use case. ```sh git clone https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts.git cd tortoise-tts docker build . -t tts docker run --gpus all \ -e TORTOISE_MODELS_DIR=/models \ -v /mnt/user/data/tortoise_tts/models:/models \ -v /mnt/user/data/tortoise_tts/results:/results \ -v /mnt/user/data/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ -v /root:/work \ -it tts ``` This gives you an interactive terminal in an environment that's ready to do some tts. Now you can explore the different interfaces that tortoise exposes for tts. For example: ```sh cd app conda activate tortoise time python tortoise/do_tts.py \ --output_path /results \ --preset ultra_fast \ --voice geralt \ --text "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a bananna." ``` ## Apple Silicon On macOS 13+ with M1/M2 chips you need to install the nighly version of PyTorch, as stated in the official page you can do: ```shell pip3 install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cpu ``` Be sure to do that after you activate the environment. If you don't use conda the commands would look like this: ```shell python3.10 -m venv .venv source .venv/bin/activate pip install numba inflect psutil pip install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cpu pip install transformers git clone https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts.git cd tortoise-tts pip install . ``` Be aware that DeepSpeed is disabled on Apple Silicon since it does not work. The flag `--use_deepspeed` is ignored. You may need to prepend `PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK=1` to the commands below to make them work since MPS does not support all the operations in Pytorch. ### do_tts.py This script allows you to speak a single phrase with one or more voices. ```shell python tortoise/do_tts.py --text "I'm going to speak this" --voice random --preset fast ``` ### faster inference read.py This script provides tools for reading large amounts of text. ```shell python tortoise/read_fast.py --textfile --voice random ``` ### read.py This script provides tools for reading large amounts of text. ```shell python tortoise/read.py --textfile --voice random ``` This will break up the textfile into sentences, and then convert them to speech one at a time. It will output a series of spoken clips as they are generated. Once all the clips are generated, it will combine them into a single file and output that as well. Sometimes Tortoise screws up an output. You can re-generate any bad clips by re-running `read.py` with the --regenerate argument. ### API Tortoise can be used programmatically, like so: ```python reference_clips = [utils.audio.load_audio(p, 22050) for p in clips_paths] tts = api.TextToSpeech() pcm_audio = tts.tts_with_preset("your text here", voice_samples=reference_clips, preset='fast') ``` To use deepspeed: ```python reference_clips = [utils.audio.load_audio(p, 22050) for p in clips_paths] tts = api.TextToSpeech(use_deepspeed=True) pcm_audio = tts.tts_with_preset("your text here", voice_samples=reference_clips, preset='fast') ``` To use kv cache: ```python reference_clips = [utils.audio.load_audio(p, 22050) for p in clips_paths] tts = api.TextToSpeech(kv_cache=True) pcm_audio = tts.tts_with_preset("your text here", voice_samples=reference_clips, preset='fast') ``` To run model in float16: ```python reference_clips = [utils.audio.load_audio(p, 22050) for p in clips_paths] tts = api.TextToSpeech(half=True) pcm_audio = tts.tts_with_preset("your text here", voice_samples=reference_clips, preset='fast') ``` for Faster runs use all three: ```python reference_clips = [utils.audio.load_audio(p, 22050) for p in clips_paths] tts = api.TextToSpeech(use_deepspeed=True, kv_cache=True, half=True) pcm_audio = tts.tts_with_preset("your text here", voice_samples=reference_clips, preset='fast') ``` ## Acknowledgements This project has garnered more praise than I expected. I am standing on the shoulders of giants, though, and I want to credit a few of the amazing folks in the community that have helped make this happen: - Hugging Face, who wrote the GPT model and the generate API used by Tortoise, and who hosts the model weights. - [Ramesh et al](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.12092.pdf) who authored the DALLE paper, which is the inspiration behind Tortoise. - [Nichol and Dhariwal](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.09672.pdf) who authored the (revision of) the code that drives the diffusion model. - [Jang et al](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.07889.pdf) who developed and open-sourced univnet, the vocoder this repo uses. - [Kim and Jung](https://github.com/mindslab-ai/univnet) who implemented univnet pytorch model. - [lucidrains](https://github.com/lucidrains) who writes awesome open source pytorch models, many of which are used here. - [Patrick von Platen](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten) whose guides on setting up wav2vec were invaluable to building my dataset. ## Notice Tortoise was built entirely by the author (James Betker) using their own hardware. Their employer was not involved in any facet of Tortoise's development. ## License Tortoise TTS is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. If you use this repo or the ideas therein for your research, please cite it! A bibtex entree can be found in the right pane on GitHub.