kan-bayashi_vctk_xvector_tacotron2

Usage

pip install espnet
espnet tts "Hello from ESPnet" -o out.wav --model espnet/kan-bayashi_vctk_xvector_tacotron2

import soundfile as sf
from espnet2.bin.tts_inference import Text2Speech

tts = Text2Speech.from_pretrained(model_tag="espnet/kan-bayashi_vctk_xvector_tacotron2")
output = tts("Hello from ESPnet")
sf.write("out.wav", output["wav"].view(-1).cpu().numpy(), tts.fs)

Example ESPnet2 TTS model

kan-bayashi/vctk_xvector_tacotron2

♻️ Imported from https://zenodo.org/record/4394600/

This model was trained by kan-bayashi using vctk/tts1 recipe in espnet.

Demo: How to use in ESPnet2

# coming soon

Citing ESPnet

@inproceedings{watanabe2018espnet,
  author={Shinji Watanabe and Takaaki Hori and Shigeki Karita and Tomoki Hayashi and Jiro Nishitoba and Yuya Unno and Nelson {Enrique Yalta Soplin} and Jahn Heymann and Matthew Wiesner and Nanxin Chen and Adithya Renduchintala and Tsubasa Ochiai},
  title={{ESPnet}: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit},
  year={2018},
  booktitle={Proceedings of Interspeech},
  pages={2207--2211},
  doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1456},
  url={http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1456}
}
@inproceedings{hayashi2020espnet,
  title={{Espnet-TTS}: Unified, reproducible, and integratable open source end-to-end text-to-speech toolkit},
  author={Hayashi, Tomoki and Yamamoto, Ryuichi and Inoue, Katsuki and Yoshimura, Takenori and Watanabe, Shinji and Toda, Tomoki and Takeda, Kazuya and Zhang, Yu and Tan, Xu},
  booktitle={Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  pages={7654--7658},
  year={2020},
  organization={IEEE}
}

or arXiv:

@misc{watanabe2018espnet,
      title={ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit}, 
      author={Shinji Watanabe and Takaaki Hori and Shigeki Karita and Tomoki Hayashi and Jiro Nishitoba and Yuya Unno and Nelson Enrique Yalta Soplin and Jahn Heymann and Matthew Wiesner and Nanxin Chen and Adithya Renduchintala and Tsubasa Ochiai},
      year={2018},
      eprint={1804.00015},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}