simple-tts/README.md

Simple TTTS

A simple text-to-speech program powered by kokoro.

Setup

Clone repo and go into the directory

$ git clone https://git.ayo.run/ayo/simple-tts
$ cd simple-tts

Create new environment. Here I use conda.

$ conda create -n tts

### for Intel XPU specific device usage:
$ conda create -n tts --clone llm-pt26

Note

For using Intel XPUs, see section below

Activate the environment and install the dependencies

$ conda activate tts
$ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Because vlc to automatically play the generated audio, you will have to install it:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install vlc

Note

Installing vlc via flatpak or snap will not work, as the code need access to libvlc.

Intel XPU environmental variables

Because I use an intel-based laptop, I use ipex-llm environment with pytorch 2.6.

For XPUs, we need to set some environmental variables. I have added a env.sh script which will activate the conda environment tts and set the environmental variables.

$ . env.sh

Usage

To run the program it needs an input file using the flag --input.

$ python tts.py --input demo/tongue-twister.txt --voice asmr

Voices

Optionally, you can indicate a voice you want to use with --voice.

$ python tts.py --voice am_michael

There are four shortcuts available to the best voices: pro, hot, asmr, brit (i.e., best trained voices), and pro is the default if no value is given

$ python tts.py --voice pro # af_heart

$ python tts.py --voice hot # af_bella

$ python tts.py --voice asmr # af_nicole

$ python tts.py --voice brit # bf_emma