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StyleTTS2

Human-level text-to-speech through style diffusion and adversarial training with speech language models.

★ 6.4k stars⑂ 709 forksMITupdated 2024-08
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// project facts

Project facts

StyleTTS2 is an open-source audio project by yl4579 (yl4579/StyleTTS2 on GitHub). It has 6,365 GitHub stars and 709 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 10 August 2024.

GitHub stars
6,365
Forks
709
License
MIT
Last updated on GitHub
10 August 2024
Category
Audio
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// how it works

How it works

  1. Clarify your voice goal

    Decide whether you will use a pretrained voice model or train/fine-tune on your own dataset and language.

  2. Clone and install

    Clone the repo, install PyTorch and the requirements, plus phonemizer and espeak-ng for text processing.

  3. Configure models

    Download a pretrained StyleTTS 2 model (LJSpeech or LibriTTS) or prepare your training config.

  4. Synthesize your first line

    Run inference with a reference audio clip to generate speech in that style, or start a training run.

// features

Why people love it

Style diffusion synthesis

Models speech style with diffusion, producing natural, expressive prosody rather than flat monotone output.

Adversarial training with speech LMs

Uses large speech language models such as WavLM in adversarial training to push quality towards human level.

Zero-shot speaker adaptation

Adapts to a new speaker's style from a reference recording using the pretrained text aligner and pitch extractor.

Pretrained models published

Ready models trained on LJSpeech (24 kHz) and LibriTTS are downloadable from Hugging Face.

Full training pipeline

Includes first-stage, second-stage and fine-tuning training scripts with Accelerate support for your own datasets.

Multilingual path

Pretrained components cover English, Japanese and Chinese corpora, and a multilingual PL-BERT supports training other languages.

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// run it

Run it yourself

  1. Clone the repository

    Clone StyleTTS 2 and enter the directory.

    git clone https://github.com/yl4579/StyleTTS2.git
    cd StyleTTS2
  2. Install dependencies

    Install the requirements, plus phonemizer and espeak-ng used for text processing.

    pip install -r requirements.txt
    pip install phonemizer
    sudo apt-get install espeak-ng
  3. Train or fine-tune

    For your own data, launch the documented two-stage training pipeline; for inference, download a pretrained model from Hugging Face and follow the README's inference notebook.

    accelerate launch train_first.py --config_path ./Configs/config.yml
    python train_second.py --config_path ./Configs/config.yml
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// faq

Questions, answered

Who maintains StyleTTS 2?

StyleTTS 2 is maintained by yl4579 and accompanies the StyleTTS 2 research paper.

Is it free?

The code is MIT licensed. Pretrained models have their own usage conditions described in the README, especially for voices not in the training set.

Does it need a paid API key?

No — inference and training run locally on your own GPU with downloaded models.

How does it compare to XTTS or F5-TTS?

All are open voice-cloning TTS systems; StyleTTS 2's distinction is its style-diffusion design plus adversarial training with speech language models, and its two-stage training pipeline.

How do I get started?

Clone the repo, install requirements and espeak-ng, download the LJSpeech or LibriTTS pretrained model from Hugging Face, and run the inference example.

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