In order to successfully build piper on MacOS devices (Intel or Apple Silicon), the follwing pull requests have to be merged:
espeak-ng/espeak-ng#1811
rhasspy/piper-phonemize#11
When trying to run the freshly built executable on a Mac, please keep in mind that the executable will not find the phontab file since it is not located where expected. In order to test the successful compilation, run the following command after downloading the required models:
echo 'Welcome to the Machine!' | build/piper -m en_US-lessac-medium.onnx -f welcome.wav --espeak_data
./install/espeak-ng-data
In order to successfully build piper on MacOS devices (Intel or Apple Silicon), the follwing pull requests have to be merged:
When trying to run the freshly built executable on a Mac, please keep in mind that the executable will not find the phontab file since it is not located where expected. In order to test the successful compilation, run the following command after downloading the required models: