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...The method introduces a “shallow diffusion” mechanism: instead of diffusing over many steps, generation begins at a shallow step determined adaptively, which leverages prior knowledge learned by a simple mel-spectrogram decoder and speeds up inference.

...It builds on deep-learning based TTS / voice-cloning technology (in the lineage of projects such as Real-Time-Voice-Cloning), but extends it with support for Mandarin Chinese and multiple Chinese speech datasets — broadening its applicability beyond English. The codebase is implemented in Python (with PyTorch) and includes modules for encoder, synthesizer, vocoder, preprocessing, and inference, as well as demo scripts and a web-server interface for easier experimentation or deployment. MockingBird supports both using pretrained models and training your own synthesizer (with custom datasets), giving flexibility for voice-cloning or custom-voice synthesis depending on your needs.

TensorFlowTTS is a state-of-the-art, open-source speech synthesis library built on TensorFlow 2. It offers a variety of architectures for text-to-speech, including classic and modern models such as Tacotron‑2, FastSpeech / FastSpeech2, and neural vocoders like MelGAN and Multiband‑MelGAN. Because it’s based on TensorFlow 2, it can leverage optimizations such as fake-quantization aware training and pruning — which allow models to run faster than real time and to be deployable on mobile or...

...Unlike traditional two-stage systems that separately train an acoustic model and a vocoder, VITS trains an end-to-end model that maps text directly to waveform using a conditional variational autoencoder combined with normalizing flows and adversarial training. This architecture enables parallel generation (fast inference) while achieving speech quality that rivals or surpasses many two-stage systems. The repository provides training and inference pipelines for common datasets such as LJ Speech (single-speaker) and VCTK (multi-speaker), including filelists, configs, and preprocessing scripts. It also includes monotonic alignment search code and g2p preprocessing, which are crucial components for aligning text and speech in an end-to-end setup.

HiFi-GAN is a GAN-based neural vocoder designed to generate high-fidelity speech waveforms from mel spectrograms with exceptional efficiency. It introduces a generator architecture tailored to model the periodic structure of speech and a set of discriminators that focus on different scales and periods of the waveform to better capture naturalness. The model targets a sweet spot between sample quality and generation speed, outperforming many previous GAN vocoders while being far faster than...

...Installation -------------------------------------- * Install Anaconda * conda create -n new_virtual_env python==3.6.8 * conda activate new_virtual_env * pip install -r requirements.txt * While running for the first time, keep your internet connection on to download the weights of the speech synthesis models (>500 MB) * For fast inference, you must install tensorflow-gpu and have a NVidia GPU. Project link: https://github.com/zabir-nabil/bangla-tts