language:
- ca
licence:
- apache-2.0
tags:
- matcha-tts
- acoustic modelling
- speech
- multispeaker
pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
datasets:
- projecte-aina/festcat_trimmed_denoised
- projecte-aina/openslr-slr69-ca-trimmed-denoised
Matcha-TTS Catalan Multispeaker
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Model Description
Matcha-TTS is an encoder-decoder architecture designed for fast acoustic modelling in TTS. The encoder part is based on a text encoder and a phoneme duration prediction that together predict averaged acoustic features. And the decoder has essentially a U-Net backbone inspired by Grad-TTS, which is based on the Transformer architecture. In the latter, by replacing 2D CNNs by 1D CNNs, a large reduction in memory consumption and fast synthesis is achieved.
Matcha-TTS is a non-autorregressive model trained with optimal-transport conditional flow matching (OT-CFM). This yields an ODE-based decoder capable of generating high output quality in fewer synthesis steps than models trained using score matching.
Intended Uses and Limitations
This model is intended to serve as an acoustic feature generator for multispeaker text-to-speech systems for the Catalan language. It has been finetuned using a Catalan phonemizer, therefore if the model is used for other languages it may will not produce intelligible samples after mapping its output into a speech waveform.
The quality of the samples can vary depending on the speaker. This may be due to the sensitivity of the model in learning specific frequencies and also due to the quality of samples for each speaker.
How to Use
Installation
This model has been trained using the espeak-ng open source text-to-speech software. The espeak-ng containing the Catalan phonemizer can be found here
Create a virtual environment:
python -m venv /path/to/venv
source /path/to/venv/bin/activate
For training and inferencing with Catalan Matcha-TTS you need to compile the provided espeak-ng with the Catalan phonemizer:
git clone https://github.com/projecte-aina/espeak-ng.git
export PYTHON=/path/to/env/<env_name>/bin/python
cd /path/to/espeak-ng
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/path/to/espeak-ng
make
make install
pip cache purge
pip install mecab-python3
pip install unidic-lite
Install the repository:
pip install git+https://github.com/langtech-bsc/Matcha-TTS.git@dev-cat
For Inference
PyTorch
Speech inference can be done with Catalan Matcha-TTS by loading the model remotely with the HF hub.
ONNX
We also release a ONNX version of the model
For Training
The entire checkpoint is also release to continue with pretraining or finetuning.
Training Details
Training data
The model was trained on 2 Catalan speech datasets
Training procedure
Catalan Matcha-TTS was not trained from scratch. Instead, we finetuned the model from the English multispeaker checkpoint (trained with the VCTK dataset) provided by the authors. The embedding layer was initialized with the number of catalan speakers (47) and original hyperparameters were kept.
Training Hyperparameters
- batch size: 32 (x2 GPUs)
- learning rate: 1e-4
- number of speakers: 47
- n_fft: 1024
- n_feats: 80
- sample_rate: 22050
- hop_length: 256
- win_length: 1024
- f_min: 0
- f_max: 8000
- data_statistics:
- mel_mean: -6578195
- mel_std: 2.538758
- number of samples: 13340
Evaluation
Validation values obtained from tensorboard from epoch 2399: (Note that the finetuning started from epoch 1864, as previous ones were trained with VCTK dataset)
- val_dur_loss_epoch: 0.38
- val_prior_loss_epoch: 0.97
- val_diff_loss_epoch: 2.195
Citation
If this code contributes to your research, please cite the work:
@misc{mehta2024matchatts,
title={Matcha-TTS: A fast TTS architecture with conditional flow matching},
author={Shivam Mehta and Ruibo Tu and Jonas Beskow and Éva Székely and Gustav Eje Henter},
year={2024},
eprint={2309.03199},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={eess.AS}
}
Additional Information
Author
The Language Technologies Unit from Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Contact
For further information, please send an email to [email protected].
Copyright
Copyright(c) 2023 by Language Technologies Unit, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
License
Funding
This work has been promoted and financed by the Generalitat de Catalunya through the Aina project.