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## 🔗 Links and Resources
| Type | Links |
| ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
-| 💾 **Installation** | [TTS/README.md](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/tree/dev#install-tts)|
-| 👩🏾🏫 **Tutorials and Examples** | [TTS/Wiki](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/wiki/%F0%9F%90%B8-TTS-Notebooks,-Examples-and-Tutorials) |
-| 🚀 **Released Models** | [TTS Releases](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/releases) and [Experimental Models](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/wiki/Experimental-Released-Models)|
-| 💻 **Docker Image** | [Repository by @synesthesiam](https://github.com/synesthesiam/docker-coqui-aitts)|
-| 🖥️ **Demo Server** | [TTS/server](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/tree/master/TTS/server)|
-| 🤖 **Synthesize speech** | [TTS/README.md](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS#example-synthesizing-speech-on-terminal-using-the-released-models)|
+| 💾 **Installation** | [TTS/README.md](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/tree/dev#install-tts)|
+| 👩💻 **Contributing** | [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+| 👩🏾🏫 **Tutorials and Examples** | [TTS/Wiki](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/wiki/%F0%9F%90%B8-TTS-Notebooks,-Examples-and-Tutorials) |
+| 🚀 **Released Models** | [TTS Releases](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/releases) and [Experimental Models](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/wiki/Experimental-Released-Models)|
+| 💻 **Docker Image** | [Repository by @synesthesiam](https://github.com/synesthesiam/docker-coqui-aitts)|
+| 🖥️ **Demo Server** | [TTS/server](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/tree/master/TTS/server)|
+| 🤖 **Synthesize speech** | [TTS/README.md](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS#example-synthesizing-speech-on-terminal-using-the-released-models)|
## 🥇 TTS Performance

@@ -114,17 +115,19 @@ pip install -e .
```
We use ```espeak-ng``` to convert graphemes to phonemes. You might need to install separately.
+
```bash
sudo apt-get install espeak-ng
```
If you are on Ubuntu (Debian), you can also run following commands for installation.
+
```bash
$ make system-deps # intended to be used on Ubuntu (Debian). Let us know if you have a diffent OS.
$ make install
```
-If you are on Windows 👑@GuyPaddock wrote instructions [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66726331/how-can-i-run-mozilla-tts-coqui-tts-training-with-cuda-on-a-windows-system).
+If you are on Windows, 👑@GuyPaddock wrote installation instructions [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66726331/how-can-i-run-mozilla-tts-coqui-tts-training-with-cuda-on-a-windows-system).
## Directory Structure
```
|- notebooks/ (Jupyter Notebooks for model evaluation, parameter selection and data analysis.)
@@ -174,11 +177,13 @@ Some of the public datasets that we successfully applied 🐸TTS:
After the installation, 🐸TTS provides a CLI interface for synthesizing speech using pre-trained models. You can either use your own model or the release models under 🐸TTS.
Listing released 🐸TTS models.
+
```bash
tts --list_models
```
Run a tts and a vocoder model from the released model list. (Simply copy and paste the full model names from the list as arguments for the command below.)
+
```bash
tts --text "Text for TTS" \
--model_name "///" \
@@ -187,6 +192,7 @@ tts --text "Text for TTS" \
```
Run your own TTS model (Using Griffin-Lim Vocoder)
+
```bash
tts --text "Text for TTS" \
--model_path path/to/model.pth.tar \
@@ -195,6 +201,7 @@ tts --text "Text for TTS" \
```
Run your own TTS and Vocoder models
+
```bash
tts --text "Text for TTS" \
--model_path path/to/config.json \
@@ -249,50 +256,7 @@ In case of any error or intercepted execution, if there is no checkpoint yet und
You can also enjoy Tensorboard, if you point Tensorboard argument```--logdir``` to the experiment folder.
-## Contribution guidelines
-Please follow the steps below as you send a PR to 🐸. It helps us to keep things organized.
-
-Following steps are tested on an Ubuntu system.
-
-- Clone 🐸TTS.
-```bash
-$ git clone https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
-```
-- Install 🐸TTS for development.
-```bash
-$ make system-deps # intended to be used on Ubuntu (Debian). Let us know if you have a diffent OS.
-$ make install
-```
-- Create a new branch
-```bash
-$ git checkout -b my_branch
-```
-- Implement your changes.
-- Use [Google Style](https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html#381-docstrings) docstrings.
-- Implement a test case under ```tests``` folder.
-- (Optional but Prefered) Run tests.
-```bash
-$ make tests
-```
-- Correct the style of your code.
-```bash
-$ make style
-```
-- Run the linter.
-```bash
-$ make lint
-```
-- Send a PR to ```dev``` branch, explain what the change is about.
-- Let's discuss until it is perfect. 💪
-- Once things look perfect, We merge it to the ```dev``` branch for the next version.
-
-Feel free to ping us at any step you need help using our communication channels.
-
-If you are new on Github or open-source contribution, here are good resources.
-
-- [Github Docs](https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests)
-- [First-Contribution](https://github.com/firstcontributions/first-contributions)
-
+## [Contribution guidelines](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
### Acknowledgement
- https://github.com/keithito/tacotron (Dataset pre-processing)
- https://github.com/r9y9/tacotron_pytorch (Initial Tacotron architecture)