Mozilla Text-To-Speech

[chidiewenike]

Objective

Test the Mozilla Text-To-Speech module as an offline TTS option which sounds more natural and human-like.

Key Result

A function which takes a string as input to the function and outputs the string as audio.

Details

The current TTS solution provides decent output with preferred memory usage & runtime. The next step would be a deep-learning approach which traditionally allows for more natural-sounding speech. Mozilla's Text-To-Speech module shows promise and could be a possible solution. The output audio will need to be tested/analyzed as well as benchmarking memory usage/runtime.

[chidiewenike]

Discovered by @snekiam and ran by @gwholland3 to setup TTS on a Mac:

1. python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

2. python3 setup.py develop

[gwholland3]

Docker image of Mozilla's TTS system using LJSpeech Tacotron2 English model and Multiband MelGAN vocoder:

https://github.com/synesthesiam/docker-mozillatts

Install Docker and follow the "Using" instructions on the README.