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rhasspy / piper

A fast, local neural text to speech system
https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
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Voice but not checkpoint for italian? #627

Open kirys opened 1 month ago

kirys commented 1 month ago

Hi all I'm using pipertts for a small experiment at home, I'm Italian so I'm using the Italian voice "Paola". I was thinking of training another voice, so I started searching tutorials, but the ones I found starts from a checkpoint. But in the repository i don't see an Italian checkpoint https://huggingface.co/datasets/rhasspy/piper-checkpoints/tree/main What should I do? Thank You K.

Milkom121 commented 1 month ago

same problem here

GianlucaApollaro commented 4 weeks ago

Hi. I have the same problem. I would like to train an Italian voice, but because I don't have a check point everything sound like gibberish.

kirys commented 4 weeks ago

I tried using the Spanish checkpoint, but the results were weird (and wasted 10€ of colab credit ^_^). I wonder how much GPU time would take to make a Italian checkpoint

GianlucaApollaro commented 3 weeks ago

Hi. I could finally make an Italian check point based on an English one and it worked quite well. Sometimes it gets weird, but I think that I could use a longer dataset to train even better. I'm not using colab, but I have my own GPU.

kirys commented 3 weeks ago

Mind sharing some info like How many minutes/hours of voice did it take?

GianlucaApollaro commented 3 weeks ago

Hi, for the moment I used around 40 minutes, and it doesn't sound that bad. I am planning to get to 2 hours of material in the near future.

TeoColuccio commented 2 weeks ago

Hi. I could finally make an Italian check point based on an English one and it worked quite well. Sometimes it gets weird, but I think that I could use a longer dataset to train even better. I'm not using colab, but I have my own GPU.

Hi, did you used the Lessac checkpoints and fine-tuning with italian voices?

GianlucaApollaro commented 2 weeks ago

yes, it worked quite well, once I found the right amount of material.