In this video, I look at text cleaners, and how they could be potentially causing issues with training your TTS models. I refer to cleaners in the Tortoise TTS AI Voice Cloning WebUI (MRQ) and Coqui TTS Messy and unfinished LJSpeech-format dataset markup/processing script: […]
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Narration of the short story ‘Selling Point’ by Norman Arkawy using a Tortoise TTS model generating a familiar-sounding, expressive, British voice. Originally published in ‘Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy’, December 1955.One of my favorite short stories. Full story text:https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/66713/pg66713.txt Training: 10 epochs total. Epochs 1-4 LR 1e-5, 5-6 LR 1e-6, 7-10 LR 1e-7 Mel/Text: […]
First test of the new Tortoise model. 4 voices, which also can be found in the YourTTS model I posted recently. LJS, John, and Tom rendered without any stammers or repeats, Lah has some stutters if I recall. No cherry-picked examples. Gen settings same as in my Tortoise fine tuning video, except denoise set to […]