Hi, I try to train a model using a custom 16kHz database. Tacotron 1 model training is successfully finished. When it comes to the wavenet training, i got the following error:
[Condition x == y did not hold element-wise:] [x (WaveNet_model/inference/strided_slice_5:0) = ] [15125] [y (WaveNet_model/inference/strided_slice_6:0) = ] [11000]
I have done necessary modifications for 16 kHz sample rate as can be seen in the modified hparams.py file and one thing i noticed was: 15125 / 11000 was almost equal to 22050 (the default sample rate) / 16000 (my custom database sample rate) and when i tried with different "max_time_steps" values, i have got the same ratio.
Any help is appreciated. Best Regards.
Modified hparams file:
import numpy as np import tensorflow as tf
Default hyperparameters

hparams = tf.contrib.training.HParams(
Comma-separated list of cleaners to run on text prior to training and eval. For non-English

# text, you may want to use "basic_cleaners" or "transliteration_cleaners".
cleaners='english_cleaners',

#If you only have 1 GPU or want to use only one GPU, please set num_gpus=0 and specify the GPU idx on run. example:
    #expample 1 GPU of index 2 (train on "/gpu2" only): CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=2 python train.py --model='Tacotron' --hparams='tacotron_gpu_start_idx=2'
#If you want to train on multiple GPUs, simply specify the number of GPUs available, and the idx of the first GPU to use. example:
    #example 4 GPUs starting from index 0 (train on "/gpu0"->"/gpu3"): python train.py --model='Tacotron' --hparams='tacotron_num_gpus=4, tacotron_gpu_start_idx=0'
#The hparams arguments can be directly modified on this hparams.py file instead of being specified on run if preferred!

#If one wants to train both Tacotron and WaveNet in parallel (provided WaveNet will be trained on True mel spectrograms), one needs to specify different GPU idxes.
#example Tacotron+WaveNet on a machine with 4 or plus GPUs. Two GPUs for each model: 
    # CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 python train.py --model='Tacotron' --hparams='tacotron_gpu_start_idx=0, tacotron_num_gpus=2'
    # Cuda_VISIBLE_DEVICES=2,3 python train.py --model='WaveNet' --hparams='wavenet_gpu_start_idx=2; wavenet_num_gpus=2'

#IMPORTANT NOTE: If using N GPUs, please multiply the tacotron_batch_size by N below in the hparams! (tacotron_batch_size = 32 * N)
#Never use lower batch size than 32 on a single GPU!
#Same applies for Wavenet: wavenet_batch_size = 8 * N (wavenet_batch_size can be smaller than 8 if GPU is having OOM, minimum 2)
#Please also apply the synthesis batch size modification likewise. (if N GPUs are used for synthesis, minimal batch size must be N, minimum of 1 sample per GPU)
#We did not add an automatic multi-GPU batch size computation to avoid confusion in the user's mind and to provide more control to the user for
#resources related decisions.

#Acknowledgement:
#   Many thanks to @MlWoo for his awesome work on multi-GPU Tacotron which showed to work a little faster than the original
#   pipeline for a single GPU as well. Great work!

#Hardware setup: Default supposes user has only one GPU: "/gpu:0" (Tacotron only for now! WaveNet does not support multi GPU yet, WIP)
#Synthesis also uses the following hardware parameters for multi-GPU parallel synthesis.
tacotron_gpu_start_idx = 0, #idx of the first GPU to be used for Tacotron training.
tacotron_num_gpus = 1, #Determines the number of gpus in use for Tacotron training.
wavenet_gpu_start_idx = 0, #idx of the first GPU to be used for WaveNet training. (WIP)
wavenet_num_gpus = 1, #Determines the number of gpus in use for WaveNet training. (WIP)
split_on_cpu = True, #Determines whether to split data on CPU or on first GPU. This is automatically True when more than 1 GPU is used.
###########################################################################################################################################

#Audio
#Audio parameters are the most important parameters to tune when using this work on your personal data. Below are the beginner steps to adapt
#this work to your personal data:
#   1- Determine my data sample rate: First you need to determine your audio sample_rate (how many samples are in a second of audio). This can be done using sox: "sox --i <filename>"
#       (For this small tuto, I will consider 24kHz (24000 Hz), and defaults are 22050Hz, so there are plenty of examples to refer to)
#   2- set sample_rate parameter to your data correct sample rate
#   3- Fix win_size and and hop_size accordingly: (Supposing you will follow our advice: 50ms window_size, and 12.5ms frame_shift(hop_size))
#       a- win_size = 0.05 * sample_rate. In the tuto example, 0.05 * 24000 = 1200
#       b- hop_size = 0.25 * win_size. Also equal to 0.0125 * sample_rate. In the tuto example, 0.25 * 1200 = 0.0125 * 24000 = 300 (Can set frame_shift_ms=12.5 instead)
#   4- Fix n_fft, num_freq and upsample_scales parameters accordingly.
#       a- n_fft can be either equal to win_size or the first power of 2 that comes after win_size. I usually recommend using the latter
#           to be more consistent with signal processing friends. No big difference to be seen however. For the tuto example: n_fft = 2048 = 2**11
#       b- num_freq = (n_fft / 2) + 1. For the tuto example: num_freq = 2048 / 2 + 1 = 1024 + 1 = 1025.
#       c- For WaveNet, upsample_scales products must be equal to hop_size. For the tuto example: upsample_scales=[15, 20] where 15 * 20 = 300
#           it is also possible to use upsample_scales=[3, 4, 5, 5] instead. One must only keep in mind that upsample_kernel_size[0] = 2*upsample_scales[0]
#           so the training segments should be long enough (2.8~3x upsample_scales[0] * hop_size or longer) so that the first kernel size can see the middle 
#           of the samples efficiently. The length of WaveNet training segments is under the parameter "max_time_steps".
#   5- Finally comes the silence trimming. This very much data dependent, so I suggest trying preprocessing (or part of it, ctrl-C to stop), then use the
#       .ipynb provided in the repo to listen to some inverted mel/linear spectrograms. That will first give you some idea about your above parameters, and
#       it will also give you an idea about trimming. If silences persist, try reducing trim_top_db slowly. If samples are trimmed mid words, try increasing it.
#   6- If audio quality is too metallic or fragmented (or if linear spectrogram plots are showing black silent regions on top), then restart from step 2.
num_mels = 80, #Number of mel-spectrogram channels and local conditioning dimensionality
num_freq = 1025, # (= n_fft / 2 + 1) only used when adding linear spectrograms post processing network
rescale = True, #Whether to rescale audio prior to preprocessing
rescaling_max = 0.999, #Rescaling value
trim_silence = True, #Whether to clip silence in Audio (at beginning and end of audio only, not the middle)
#train samples of lengths between 3sec and 14sec are more than enough to make a model capable of good parallelization.
clip_mels_length = True, #For cases of OOM (Not really recommended, only use if facing unsolvable OOM errors, also consider clipping your samples to smaller chunks)
max_mel_frames = 1000,  #Only relevant when clip_mels_length = True, please only use after trying output_per_steps=3 and still getting OOM errors.

# Use LWS (https://github.com/Jonathan-LeRoux/lws) for STFT and phase reconstruction
# It's preferred to set True to use with https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder
# Does not work if n_ffit is not multiple of hop_size!!
use_lws=False, #Only used to set as True if using WaveNet, no difference in performance is observed in either cases.
silence_threshold=2, #silence threshold used for sound trimming for wavenet preprocessing

#Mel spectrogram
n_fft = 2048, #Extra window size is filled with 0 paddings to match this parameter
hop_size = 200, #For 22050Hz, 275 ~= 12.5 ms (0.0125 * sample_rate)
win_size = 800, #For 22050Hz, 1100 ~= 50 ms (If None, win_size = n_fft) (0.05 * sample_rate)
sample_rate = 16000, #22050 Hz (corresponding to ljspeech dataset) (sox --i <filename>)
frame_shift_ms = None, #Can replace hop_size parameter. (Recommended: 12.5)

#M-AILABS (and other datasets) trim params (there parameters are usually correct for any data, but definitely must be tuned for specific speakers)
trim_fft_size = 512, 
trim_hop_size = 128,
trim_top_db = 23,

#Mel and Linear spectrograms normalization/scaling and clipping
signal_normalization = True, #Whether to normalize mel spectrograms to some predefined range (following below parameters)
allow_clipping_in_normalization = True, #Only relevant if mel_normalization = True
symmetric_mels = True, #Whether to scale the data to be symmetric around 0. (Also multiplies the output range by 2, faster and cleaner convergence)
max_abs_value = 4., #max absolute value of data. If symmetric, data will be [-max, max] else [0, max] (Must not be too big to avoid gradient explosion, 
                                                                                                      #not too small for fast convergence)
normalize_for_wavenet = True, #whether to rescale to [0, 1] for wavenet. (better audio quality)
clip_for_wavenet = True, #whether to clip [-max, max] before training/synthesizing with wavenet (better audio quality)

#Contribution by @begeekmyfriend
#Spectrogram Pre-Emphasis (Lfilter: Reduce spectrogram noise and helps model certitude levels. Also allows for better G&L phase reconstruction)
preemphasize = True, #whether to apply filter
preemphasis = 0.97, #filter coefficient.

#Limits
min_level_db = -100,
ref_level_db = 20,
fmin = 55, #Set this to 55 if your speaker is male! if female, 95 should help taking off noise. (To test depending on dataset. Pitch info: male~[65, 260], female~[100, 525])
fmax = 7600, #To be increased/reduced depending on data.

#Griffin Lim
power = 1.5, #Only used in G&L inversion, usually values between 1.2 and 1.5 are a good choice.
griffin_lim_iters = 60, #Number of G&L iterations, typically 30 is enough but we use 60 to ensure convergence.
###########################################################################################################################################

#Tacotron
outputs_per_step = 1, #number of frames to generate at each decoding step (increase to speed up computation and allows for higher batch size, decreases G&L audio quality)
stop_at_any = True, #Determines whether the decoder should stop when predicting <stop> to any frame or to all of them (True works pretty well)

embedding_dim = 512, #dimension of embedding space

#Encoder parameters
enc_conv_num_layers = 3, #number of encoder convolutional layers
enc_conv_kernel_size = (5, ), #size of encoder convolution filters for each layer
enc_conv_channels = 512, #number of encoder convolutions filters for each layer
encoder_lstm_units = 256, #number of lstm units for each direction (forward and backward)

#Attention mechanism
smoothing = False, #Whether to smooth the attention normalization function
attention_dim = 128, #dimension of attention space
attention_filters = 32, #number of attention convolution filters
attention_kernel = (31, ), #kernel size of attention convolution
cumulative_weights = True, #Whether to cumulate (sum) all previous attention weights or simply feed previous weights (Recommended: True)

#Decoder
prenet_layers = [256, 256], #number of layers and number of units of prenet
decoder_layers = 2, #number of decoder lstm layers
decoder_lstm_units = 1024, #number of decoder lstm units on each layer
max_iters = 2000, #Max decoder steps during inference (Just for safety from infinite loop cases)

#Residual postnet
postnet_num_layers = 5, #number of postnet convolutional layers
postnet_kernel_size = (5, ), #size of postnet convolution filters for each layer
postnet_channels = 512, #number of postnet convolution filters for each layer

#CBHG mel->linear postnet
cbhg_kernels = 8, #All kernel sizes from 1 to cbhg_kernels will be used in the convolution bank of CBHG to act as "K-grams"
cbhg_conv_channels = 128, #Channels of the convolution bank
cbhg_pool_size = 2, #pooling size of the CBHG
cbhg_projection = 256, #projection channels of the CBHG (1st projection, 2nd is automatically set to num_mels)
cbhg_projection_kernel_size = 3, #kernel_size of the CBHG projections
cbhg_highwaynet_layers = 4, #Number of HighwayNet layers
cbhg_highway_units = 128, #Number of units used in HighwayNet fully connected layers
cbhg_rnn_units = 128, #Number of GRU units used in bidirectional RNN of CBHG block. CBHG output is 2x rnn_units in shape

#Loss params
mask_encoder = True, #whether to mask encoder padding while computing attention. Set to True for better prosody but slower convergence.
mask_decoder = False, #Whether to use loss mask for padded sequences (if False, <stop_token> loss function will not be weighted, else recommended pos_weight = 20)
cross_entropy_pos_weight = 20, #Use class weights to reduce the stop token classes imbalance (by adding more penalty on False Negatives (FN)) (1 = disabled)
predict_linear = True, #Whether to add a post-processing network to the Tacotron to predict linear spectrograms (True mode Not tested!!)
###########################################################################################################################################

#Wavenet
# Input type:
# 1. raw [-1, 1]
# 2. mulaw [-1, 1]
# 3. mulaw-quantize [0, mu]
# If input_type is raw or mulaw, network assumes scalar input and
# discretized mixture of logistic distributions output, otherwise one-hot
# input and softmax output are assumed.
#Model generatl type
input_type="raw",
quantize_channels=2 ** 16,  # 65536 (16-bit) (raw) or 256 (8-bit) (mulaw or mulaw-quantize) // number of classes = 256 <=> mu = 255

#Minimal scales ranges for MoL and Gaussian modeling
log_scale_min=float(np.log(1e-14)), #Mixture of logistic distributions minimal log scale
log_scale_min_gauss = float(np.log(1e-7)), #Gaussian distribution minimal allowed log scale

#model parameters
#To use Gaussian distribution as output distribution instead of mixture of logistics, set "out_channels = 2" instead of "out_channels = 10 * 3". (UNDER TEST)
out_channels = 2, #This should be equal to quantize channels when input type is 'mulaw-quantize' else: num_distributions * 3 (prob, mean, log_scale).
layers = 20, #Number of dilated convolutions (Default: Simplified Wavenet of Tacotron-2 paper)
stacks = 2, #Number of dilated convolution stacks (Default: Simplified Wavenet of Tacotron-2 paper)
residual_channels = 128, #Number of residual block input/output channels.
gate_channels = 256, #split in 2 in gated convolutions
skip_out_channels = 128, #Number of residual block skip convolution channels.
kernel_size = 3, #The number of inputs to consider in dilated convolutions.

#Upsampling parameters (local conditioning)
cin_channels = 80, #Set this to -1 to disable local conditioning, else it must be equal to num_mels!!
upsample_conditional_features = True, #Whether to repeat conditional features or upsample them (The latter is recommended)
upsample_type = '1D', #Type of the upsampling deconvolution. Can be ('1D' or '2D'). 1D spans all frequency bands for each frame while 2D spans "freq_axis_kernel_size" bands at a time
upsample_activation = 'LeakyRelu', #Activation function used during upsampling. Can be ('LeakyRelu', 'Relu' or None)
upsample_scales = [5, 5, 11], #prod(upsample_scales) should be equal to hop_size
freq_axis_kernel_size = 3, #Only used for 2D upsampling. This is the number of requency bands that are spanned at a time for each frame.
leaky_alpha = 0.4, #slope of the negative portion of LeakyRelu (LeakyRelu: y=x if x>0 else y=alpha * x)

#global conditioning
gin_channels = -1, #Set this to -1 to disable global conditioning, Only used for multi speaker dataset. It defines the depth of the embeddings (Recommended: 16)
use_speaker_embedding = True, #whether to make a speaker embedding
n_speakers = 5, #number of speakers (rows of the embedding)

#the bias debate! :)
use_bias = True, #Whether to use bias in convolutional layers of the Wavenet

#training samples length
max_time_sec = None, #Max time of audio for training. If None, we use max_time_steps.
max_time_steps = 11000, #Max time steps in audio used to train wavenet (decrease to save memory) (Recommend: 8000 on modest GPUs, 13000 on stronger ones)
###########################################################################################################################################

#Tacotron Training
#Reproduction seeds
tacotron_random_seed = 5339, #Determines initial graph and operations (i.e: model) random state for reproducibility
tacotron_data_random_state = 1234, #random state for train test split repeatability

#performance parameters
tacotron_swap_with_cpu = False, #Whether to use cpu as support to gpu for decoder computation (Not recommended: may cause major slowdowns! Only use when critical!)

#train/test split ratios, mini-batches sizes
tacotron_batch_size = 32, #number of training samples on each training steps
#Tacotron Batch synthesis supports ~16x the training batch size (no gradients during testing). 
#Training Tacotron with unmasked paddings makes it aware of them, which makes synthesis times different from training. We thus recommend masking the encoder.
tacotron_synthesis_batch_size = 1, #DO NOT MAKE THIS BIGGER THAN 1 IF YOU DIDN'T TRAIN TACOTRON WITH "mask_encoder=True"!!
tacotron_test_size = 0.05, #% of data to keep as test data, if None, tacotron_test_batches must be not None. (5% is enough to have a good idea about overfit)
tacotron_test_batches = None, #number of test batches.

#Learning rate schedule
tacotron_decay_learning_rate = True, #boolean, determines if the learning rate will follow an exponential decay
tacotron_start_decay = 50000, #Step at which learning decay starts
tacotron_decay_steps = 50000, #Determines the learning rate decay slope (UNDER TEST)
tacotron_decay_rate = 0.5, #learning rate decay rate (UNDER TEST)
tacotron_initial_learning_rate = 1e-3, #starting learning rate
tacotron_final_learning_rate = 1e-5, #minimal learning rate

#Optimization parameters
tacotron_adam_beta1 = 0.9, #AdamOptimizer beta1 parameter
tacotron_adam_beta2 = 0.999, #AdamOptimizer beta2 parameter
tacotron_adam_epsilon = 1e-6, #AdamOptimizer Epsilon parameter

#Regularization parameters
tacotron_reg_weight = 1e-7, #regularization weight (for L2 regularization)
tacotron_scale_regularization = False, #Whether to rescale regularization weight to adapt for outputs range (used when reg_weight is high and biasing the model)
tacotron_zoneout_rate = 0.1, #zoneout rate for all LSTM cells in the network
tacotron_dropout_rate = 0.5, #dropout rate for all convolutional layers + prenet
tacotron_clip_gradients = True, #whether to clip gradients

#Evaluation parameters
natural_eval = False, #Whether to use 100% natural eval (to evaluate Curriculum Learning performance) or with same teacher-forcing ratio as in training (just for overfit)

#Decoder RNN learning can take be done in one of two ways:
#   Teacher Forcing: vanilla teacher forcing (usually with ratio = 1). mode='constant'
#   Curriculum Learning Scheme: From Teacher-Forcing to sampling from previous outputs is function of global step. (teacher forcing ratio decay) mode='scheduled'
#The second approach is inspired by:
#Bengio et al. 2015: Scheduled Sampling for Sequence Prediction with Recurrent Neural Networks.
#Can be found under: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03099.pdf
tacotron_teacher_forcing_mode = 'constant', #Can be ('constant' or 'scheduled'). 'scheduled' mode applies a cosine teacher forcing ratio decay. (Preference: scheduled)
tacotron_teacher_forcing_ratio = 1., #Value from [0., 1.], 0.=0%, 1.=100%, determines the % of times we force next decoder inputs, Only relevant if mode='constant'
tacotron_teacher_forcing_init_ratio = 1., #initial teacher forcing ratio. Relevant if mode='scheduled'
tacotron_teacher_forcing_final_ratio = 0., #final teacher forcing ratio. Relevant if mode='scheduled'
tacotron_teacher_forcing_start_decay = 10000, #starting point of teacher forcing ratio decay. Relevant if mode='scheduled'
tacotron_teacher_forcing_decay_steps = 280000, #Determines the teacher forcing ratio decay slope. Relevant if mode='scheduled'
tacotron_teacher_forcing_decay_alpha = 0., #teacher forcing ratio decay rate. Relevant if mode='scheduled'
###########################################################################################################################################

#Wavenet Training
wavenet_random_seed = 5339, # S=5, E=3, D=9 :)
wavenet_data_random_state = 1234, #random state for train test split repeatability

#performance parameters
wavenet_swap_with_cpu = False, #Whether to use cpu as support to gpu for synthesis computation (while loop).(Not recommended: may cause major slowdowns! Only use when critical!)

#train/test split ratios, mini-batches sizes
wavenet_batch_size = 8, #batch size used to train wavenet.
#During synthesis, there is no max_time_steps limitation so the model can sample much longer audio than 8k(or 13k) steps. (Audio can go up to 500k steps, equivalent to ~21sec on 24kHz)
#Usually your GPU can handle ~2x wavenet_batch_size during synthesis for the same memory amount during training (because no gradients to keep and ops to register for backprop)
wavenet_synthesis_batch_size = 10 * 2, #This ensure that wavenet synthesis goes up to 4x~8x faster when synthesizing multiple sentences. Watch out for OOM with long audios.
wavenet_test_size = 0.0441, #% of data to keep as test data, if None, wavenet_test_batches must be not None
wavenet_test_batches = None, #number of test batches.

#Learning rate schedule
wavenet_lr_schedule = 'exponential', #learning rate schedule. Can be ('exponential', 'noam')
wavenet_learning_rate = 1e-4, #wavenet initial learning rate
wavenet_warmup = float(4000), #Only used with 'noam' scheme. Defines the number of ascending learning rate steps.
wavenet_decay_rate = 0.5, #Only used with 'exponential' scheme. Defines the decay rate.
wavenet_decay_steps = 300000, #Only used with 'exponential' scheme. Defines the decay steps.

#Optimization parameters
wavenet_adam_beta1 = 0.9, #Adam beta1
wavenet_adam_beta2 = 0.999, #Adam beta2
wavenet_adam_epsilon = 1e-8, #Adam Epsilon

#Regularization parameters
wavenet_clip_gradients = False, #Whether the clip the gradients during wavenet training.
wavenet_ema_decay = 0.9999, #decay rate of exponential moving average
wavenet_weight_normalization = False, #Whether to Apply Saliman & Kingma Weight Normalization (reparametrization) technique. (NEEDS VERIFICATION)
wavenet_init_scale = 1., #Only relevent if weight_normalization=True. Defines the initial scale in data dependent initialization of parameters.
wavenet_dropout = 0.05, #drop rate of wavenet layers

#Tacotron-2 integration parameters
train_with_GTA = False, #Whether to use GTA mels to train WaveNet instead of ground truth mels.
###########################################################################################################################################

#Eval sentences (if no eval text file was specified during synthesis, these sentences are used for eval)
sentences = [
# From July 8, 2017 New York Times:
'Scientists at the CERN laboratory say they have discovered a new particle.',
'There\'s a way to measure the acute emotional intelligence that has never gone out of style.',
'President Trump met with other leaders at the Group of 20 conference.',
'The Senate\'s bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is now imperiled.',
# From Google's Tacotron example page:
'Generative adversarial network or variational auto-encoder.',
'Basilar membrane and otolaryngology are not auto-correlations.',
'He has read the whole thing.',
'He reads books.',
'He thought it was time to present the present.',
'Thisss isrealy awhsome.',
'Punctuation sensitivity, is working.',
'Punctuation sensitivity is working.',
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?",
"She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore. The shells she sells are sea-shells I'm sure.",
"Tajima Airport serves Toyooka.",
#From The web (random long utterance)
'Sequence to sequence models have enjoyed great success in a variety of tasks such as machine translation, speech recognition, and text summarization.\
This project covers a sequence to sequence model trained to predict a speech representation from an input sequence of characters. We show that\
the adopted architecture is able to perform this task with wild success.',
'Thank you so much for your support!',
]

)
def hparams_debug_string(): values = hparams.values() hp = [' %s: %s' % (name, values[name]) for name in sorted(values) if name != 'sentences'] return 'Hyperparameters:\n' + '\n'.join(hp)
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