@baconator
Oh OK, now i’ve dug a little deeper i saw that the articles talking about 2 servers with the second model already packaged, so i haven’t recognized it as such.
So, STT aside. Is the TTS serveing (described in the how-to) still viable? Or what would you suggest?
Is STT modeling sourced from one speaker beneficial?
We first want to iron out the shortcomings mentioned above, e.g. “stop attention” and voice quality. After that the TTS & vocoder models will be published.
As discussed in Mycroft chat with @SGee i’ve uploaded the sample phrases as in first post with a new “vocoder” (wavegrad) model training. @Dominik and i are currently playing around with different vocoders.
It’s based on same taco2 model as first samples (460k steps), so voice flow is identical but it’s pronounced diffently. Random noise in background will (hopefully) get away on more training steps (currently wavegrad training on 350k steps).
thx a lot for all the hard work. works great but sadly on my machines quite slow and therefore almost not usable since I’m not sure how to improve the time it takes to generate the wav.
I’d check if the model can be run easily with the Griffin-Lim vocoder. That could be faster but with less quality.
I’ll check and give feedback if i know it’s working.
@Dominik and i are still working on the next release of “Thorsten” voice to be used as offline TTS for Mycroft. (@Olafthanks for supporting with HifiGAN training compute power)
Some german sentences taken from Mycroft skills can be heard here: