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Mozilla TTS

Mozilla's deep-learning text-to-speech library with Tacotron, Glow-TTS and neural vocoders.

★ 10.2k stars⑂ 1.3k forksMPL-2.0updated 2023-11
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// project facts

Project facts

Mozilla TTS is an open-source audio project by mozilla (mozilla/TTS on GitHub). It has 10,174 GitHub stars and 1,323 forks, is released under the MPL-2.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 9 November 2023.

Repository
mozilla/TTS
GitHub stars
10,174
Forks
1,323
License
MPL-2.0
Last updated on GitHub
9 November 2023
Category
Audio
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// how it works

How it works

  1. Mind the age and Python version

    Plan for an older environment: the library supports Python >=3.6 and <3.9, and the project has not been updated since late 2023.

  2. Install from PyPI or source

    For synthesis only, pip install TTS; to train or modify models, clone the repo and install it editable.

  3. Pick a released model

    List the bundled pretrained models, then choose a text-to-speech model and a vocoder from the list.

  4. Synthesize or train

    Generate speech from the command line with the tts CLI, or write a config.json for your dataset and run a training script such as train_tacotron.py.

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Why people love it

Text-to-spectrogram models

Tacotron, Tacotron2, Glow-TTS and SpeedySpeech implementations, with several attention methods including guided attention and Graves attention.

Neural vocoders

MelGAN, MultiBand-MelGAN, GAN-TTS, ParallelWaveGAN, WaveGrad and WaveRNN vocoders to turn spectrograms into waveforms.

Speaker encoder and multi-speaker TTS

A GE2E speaker encoder computes speaker embeddings efficiently, enabling multi-speaker models and voice conditioning.

Pretrained models and CLI

Released models in PyTorch, TensorFlow and TFLite formats, plus a tts command-line tool to list models and synthesize speech in one command.

Training pipeline

Fast multi-GPU training via distribute.py, detailed console and TensorBoard logs, fine-tuning with --restore_path, and conversion of PyTorch models to TensorFlow/TFLite.

Dataset tooling

Tools to analyze and curate TTS datasets, a generic dataloader for custom corpora, a demo server for testing models, and benchmarking notebooks.

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// run it

Run it yourself

  1. Clone the repository

    Clone Mozilla TTS if you plan to train models or work from source.

    git clone https://github.com/mozilla/TTS.git
    cd TTS
  2. Install the library

    Install from source in editable mode (for synthesis only, pip install TTS is the documented shortcut - use a Python 3.6-3.8 environment).

    pip install -e .
  3. Synthesize your first sentence

    List the released models, then run the CLI with a model and vocoder name copied from that list.

    tts --list_models
    tts --text "Text for TTS" --model_name "///" --vocoder_name "///" --out_path output/  # fill in names from --list_models
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What you can build

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// faq

Questions, answered

Who maintains Mozilla TTS?

It was developed under Mozilla; the repository has not seen pushes since 2023-11-09, so today it is effectively community-preserved rather than actively maintained.

Is Mozilla TTS free to use?

Yes. It is released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, which permits use including in commercial products, with file-level copyleft terms.

Does it need a paid API key?

No. Everything runs locally - pretrained models download once, and training and synthesis happen on your own machine.

How does it compare with Coqui TTS?

Coqui TTS began as the community continuation of this codebase and is the actively maintained successor with newer models; Mozilla TTS is the original library, best for its classic architectures and recipes.

How do I get started?

Create a Python 3.8 environment, run pip install TTS, then tts --list_models and synthesize with one of the released models.

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