Mimic3 Voice download error

Mimic
#1

So i followed the instructions and installed mimic3 on my raspberry pi 4 running ubuntu mate. And it works fine, but only for one voice: en_UK/apope_low. Whenever I try to chose a different model i get an error:

URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 99] Cannot assign requested address>

i tried installing all the different ways, tried downloading the voices manually using

mimic3-download ‘en_US/*’

but same error. I think en_UK is downloaded as default. I tried cloning the voices repo from git 'https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3-voices' and copying them to the voices directory. But then I get parsing error. Anyone know how to help me get other voices?

#2

I have the same error when cloning the repo. You need to install git-lfs first so you can download the big files, usually generator.onnx ones

#3

I have no problem cloning the repo. But after cloning it, I cant use it.

I get the error:

urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>

when trying to run mimic3 with any voice other than the default and also while trying to download the voices maually using the command:

mimic3-download ‘en_US/*’

#4

If you cloned the entire repository using a web browser, it does not download the actual generator.onnx files (Instead only a reference to it is included, which has the same file name.) The actual file should be a few dozen Megabytes. The file downloaded when cloning the repository via a browser is only about 133 bytes.

If this is indeed the case, you can do any of the following:

  1. If you need only a couple of voice models, you can navigate to the required voice’s folder in a web browser and download the file for the voice model you need individually. Then replace the generator.onnx file in the repo you downloaded earlier with this new file.
    mimic3-git
    mimic3-git709×192 28.7 KB

(This is impractical if you require multiple voice models. See the next point for a less tedious solution.)

  1. As @atd mentioned, this happens because some larger files are stored with git-lfs, and you need to install it. Use:
    sudo apt install git git-lfs
    Then run the following command to clone the repository:
    git clone https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3-voices
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