Issue running on Raspberry pi 5

[wyrmwood9]

While following Thorsten's tutorial for running a local Piper TTS server with Python on Linux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLR5AsbCMHs

I encounter the error when trying to run the http server Traceback (most recent call last): File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code File "/home/mm/piper/src/python_run/piper/http_server.py", line 127, in <module> main() File "/home/mm/piper/src/python_run/piper/http_server.py", line 93, in main voice = PiperVoice.load(args.model, config_path=args.config, use_cuda=args.cuda) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/mm/piper/src/python_run/piper/voice.py", line 35, in load config_dict = json.load(config_file) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load return loads(fp.read(), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) This is on a Raspberry Pi 5 (4GB) running Pi OS Bookworm 12.2.0 (uname -a Linux raspberrypi 6.1.0-rpi8-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.1.73-1+rpt1 (2024-01-25) aarch64 GNU/Linux)

any ideas?

[ausgomez]

I am getting exactly the same error following that video, did you ever figure this out?

[ausgomez]

actually I found the issue! just dont include the extension at the end of the model's file like for example: python3 -m piper.http_server --model en_US-danny-low