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HPR4188: Re: HPR4172 Comment by Ken Fallon
Hello HPR, this is your host Archer72, for another episode of Hacker
Public Radio.
My subject today is Piper voice synthesis, continued.
My subject today is Piper voice synthesis, continued.
In response to Ken's comment on my show, hpr4172 Re: hpr4072 Piper
voice
synthesis, I am responding to his comment with a solution. I'm
synthesis, I am responding to his comment with a solution. I'm
glad that Ken
commented, because I had put the problem on the back
commented, because I had put the problem on the back
burner and forgot about it.
Both of us had the make
Both of us had the make
command for the Piper github repo fail at 22%.
I ignored it for the time being and compiled Piper for the Raspberry Pi
instead.
Now here is the comment that got me to figure out how to
Now here is the comment that got me to figure out how to
get Piper working on my
own Fedora 40 laptop.
own Fedora 40 laptop.
Comment #1 posted on 2024-07-24 14:04:27 by Ken Fallon
Fails on
Fedora 40
[ 22%] Linking C shared library libespeak-ng.so /usr/bin/ld:
../ucd-tools/libucd.a(case.c.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can
not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld:
failed to set dynamic section sizes: bad value collect2: error: ld returned 1
exit status [snip] make: *** [Makefile:5: all] Error 2
Comment #2 posted on 2024-07-26 09:38:17 by Archer72
Re:Fails on
Fedora 40
Hi Ken, I get the same failure, and found that there was a release in
2023
Github Piper repo
I put the downloaded piper directory in /opt , along with
the
piper-voices/en directory and have a successful
piper-voices/en directory and have a successful
voice output.
uname -r
6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64
[piper] [info] Loaded voice in 0.33 second(s)
[piper] [info] Initialized piper Output directory: /home/mark/./output.wav
End of comments
In further conversations with Ken, I found that a vital part of Piper
voice
synthesis had been forgotten. For example, if you are using
synthesis had been forgotten. For example, if you are using
Piper to convert a
text file to .wav, the command need to include
text file to .wav, the command need to include
the following:
input.txt piper executable location, i.e.
input.txt piper executable location, i.e.
/opt/piper/piper
--model, and the model location, i.e.
/opt/piper-voices/
note, the voice used need to include the voice in .onnx format and
also the
voice configuration in .json format
voice configuration in .json format
--output_file output.wav
The final script is included in the show notes.
#!/bin/bash
cat "$1" | /opt/piper/piper --model /opt/piper-voices/en_US/kusal/medium/en_US-kusal-medium.onnx --output_file output.wav
That's it! Now if you had downloaded the voices from hpr4172, there
should be a
successful voice to text output.
successful voice to text output.
To put the final touches on 'my' voice, which is the
en_US-kusal-medium voice,
processed just a bit with the
processed just a bit with the
sox program.
## ~/bin/make-my-voice.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Add 2 seconds of silence to the beginning of the file
sox $1 output.wav pad 2
## Reduce clipping
sox output.wav output-mid.wav vol 0.99
# Reduce the tempo by 12%
sox output-mid.wav final_output.wav tempo 0.88
One last thing. It was brought to my attention that the Piper voice,
Bryce 'may'
sound like William Shatner in the original Star Trek tv
sound like William Shatner in the original Star Trek tv
series.
I will put that clip in here and see what the community thinks. Feel
free to
leave a comment saying 'yay' or 'nay' on this opinion.
leave a comment saying 'yay' or 'nay' on this opinion.
If this tool works for you, feel free to leave comments on this show.
Better
yet, record a show of your own. Looking forward to hearing
yet, record a show of your own. Looking forward to hearing
from the
next host, whether it be by text to speech, or a
next host, whether it be by text to speech, or a
microphone.
Remember to support free software and apps in the F-Droid store if you
use Android.
This has been your host Archer72; Bye
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Hello HPR, this is your host Archer72, for another episode of Hacker
Public Radio.
My subject today is Piper voice synthesis, continued.
My subject today is Piper voice synthesis, continued.
In response to Ken's comment on my show, hpr4172 Re: hpr4072 Piper
voice
synthesis, I am responding to his comment with a solution. I'm
synthesis, I am responding to his comment with a solution. I'm
glad that Ken
commented, because I had put the problem on the back
commented, because I had put the problem on the back
burner and forgot about it.
Both of us had the make
Both of us had the make
command for the Piper github repo fail at 22%.
I ignored it for the time being and compiled Piper for the Raspberry Pi
instead.
Now here is the comment that got me to figure out how to
Now here is the comment that got me to figure out how to
get Piper working on my
own Fedora 40 laptop.
own Fedora 40 laptop.
Comment #1 posted on 2024-07-24 14:04:27 by Ken Fallon
Fails on
Fedora 40
[ 22%] Linking C shared library libespeak-ng.so /usr/bin/ld:
../ucd-tools/libucd.a(case.c.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can
not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld:
failed to set dynamic section sizes: bad value collect2: error: ld returned 1
exit status [snip] make: *** [Makefile:5: all] Error 2
Comment #2 posted on 2024-07-26 09:38:17 by Archer72
Re:Fails on
Fedora 40
Hi Ken, I get the same failure, and found that there was a release in
2023
Github Piper repo
I put the downloaded piper directory in /opt , along with
the
piper-voices/en directory and have a successful
piper-voices/en directory and have a successful
voice output.
uname -r
6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64
[piper] [info] Loaded voice in 0.33 second(s)
[piper] [info] Initialized piper Output directory: /home/mark/./output.wav
End of comments
In further conversations with Ken, I found that a vital part of Piper
voice
synthesis had been forgotten. For example, if you are using
synthesis had been forgotten. For example, if you are using
Piper to convert a
text file to .wav, the command need to include
text file to .wav, the command need to include
the following:
input.txt piper executable location, i.e.
input.txt piper executable location, i.e.
/opt/piper/piper
--model, and the model location, i.e.
/opt/piper-voices/
note, the voice used need to include the voice in .onnx format and
also the
voice configuration in .json format
voice configuration in .json format
--output_file output.wav
The final script is included in the show notes.
#!/bin/bash
cat "$1" | /opt/piper/piper --model /opt/piper-voices/en_US/kusal/medium/en_US-kusal-medium.onnx --output_file output.wav
That's it! Now if you had downloaded the voices from hpr4172, there
should be a
successful voice to text output.
successful voice to text output.
To put the final touches on 'my' voice, which is the
en_US-kusal-medium voice,
processed just a bit with the
processed just a bit with the
sox program.
## ~/bin/make-my-voice.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Add 2 seconds of silence to the beginning of the file
sox $1 output.wav pad 2
## Reduce clipping
sox output.wav output-mid.wav vol 0.99
# Reduce the tempo by 12%
sox output-mid.wav final_output.wav tempo 0.88
One last thing. It was brought to my attention that the Piper voice,
Bryce 'may'
sound like William Shatner in the original Star Trek tv
sound like William Shatner in the original Star Trek tv
series.
I will put that clip in here and see what the community thinks. Feel
free to
leave a comment saying 'yay' or 'nay' on this opinion.
leave a comment saying 'yay' or 'nay' on this opinion.
If this tool works for you, feel free to leave comments on this show.
Better
yet, record a show of your own. Looking forward to hearing
yet, record a show of your own. Looking forward to hearing
from the
next host, whether it be by text to speech, or a
next host, whether it be by text to speech, or a
microphone.
Remember to support free software and apps in the F-Droid store if you
use Android.
This has been your host Archer72; Bye
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