Strange tensor flow error due to an argument

[alvaroromerosc]

Hello,

First of all, thank you for your effort with the open-source TTS projects.
As summary, I'm trying to create a TTS of Spanish language using your open-source dc_tts.

To do that, I want to train in my laptop the net that you uploaded as "pre-trained net" in order to know if I will be able to train my own network for spanish (once I have the spanish database correctly), but I get an error of tensorflow due to an argument. I have all the libraries correctly installed and the LJ database downloaded.

The only thing that I did was to download the repository, fix correctly the database paths (LJ) and run the train script with parameter "1".

C:\tf_jenkins\home\workspace\rel-win\M\windows\PY\36\tensorflow\core\framework\op_kernel.cc:1192] Invalid argument: TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

Thank you!

[Sladix]

Hello, I'm encountering the same issue !

I'm on Windows 7 working with conda.
The synthetize script worked like a charm on the first try, but I'm still struggling with the same error as @alvaroromerosc .

Edit : Tried to add 'rb' as the codecs.open's mode but it doesn't seems to solve anything...
Edit2 : It seems that the issue is caused because I try to run the script in python 3.6 and this seems to be causing the issue
Edit 3 : Since I'm using windows, I can't run tensorflow with python < 3.5 according to the official tensorflow documentation but I'll try to use conda to see if I manage to get this working. I'm super excited about training this model with various data !

[Sladix]

A quick update,

I can't get tensorflow working on windows with python 27, @Kyubyong, could you point me in the right direction to update your code so it would be compatible with python 3.6 ?
Thanks a lot !

[noetits]

Hello,

I had the same issue with linux in python 3.
In my case, it comes from data_load.py (https://github.com/Kyubyong/dc_tts/blob/master/data_load.py)

Following your link that explain the issue, I searched how to convert bytes to string in python 3:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/606191/convert-bytes-to-a-string

I replaced:
mel = "mels/{}".format(fname.replace("wav", "npy"))
mag = "mags/{}".format(fname.replace("wav", "npy"))

by

mel = "mels/{}".format(fname.decode("utf-8").replace("wav", "npy"))
mag = "mags/{}".format(fname.decode("utf-8").replace("wav", "npy"))

And it seems to work.
(Maybe it would be better to use try: ... except TypeError: ...)