> This is the official code implementation of 🍵 Matcha-TTS [ICASSP 2024].
We propose 🍵 Matcha-TTS, a new approach to non-autoregressive neural TTS, that uses [conditional flow matching](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02747)(similar to [rectified flows](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03003)) to speed up ODE-based speech synthesis. Our method:
- Is probabilistic
- Has compact memory footprint
- Sounds highly natural
- Is very fast to synthesise from
Check out our [demo page](https://shivammehta25.github.io/Matcha-TTS) and read [our ICASSP 2024 paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03199) for more details.
[Pre-trained models](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17C_gYgEHOxI5ZypcfE_k1piKCtyR0isJ?usp=sharing) will be automatically downloaded with the CLI or gradio interface.
You can also [try 🍵 Matcha-TTS in your browser on HuggingFace 🤗 spaces](https://huggingface.co/spaces/shivammehta25/Matcha-TTS).
## Teaser video
[](https://youtu.be/xmvJkz3bqw0)
1. Download the dataset from [here](https://keithito.com/LJ-Speech-Dataset/), extract it to `data/LJSpeech-1.1`, and prepare the file lists to point to the extracted data like for [item 5 in the setup of the NVIDIA Tacotron 2 repo](https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2#setup).
Optionally, the ONNX exporter accepts **vocoder-name** and **vocoder-checkpoint** arguments. This enables you to embed the vocoder in the exported graph and generate waveforms in a single run (similar to end-to-end TTS systems).
**Note** that `n_timesteps` is treated as a hyper-parameter rather than a model input. This means you should specify it during export (not during inference). If not specified, `n_timesteps` is set to **5**.
**Important**: for now, torch>=2.1.0 is needed for export since the `scaled_product_attention` operator is not exportable in older versions. Until the final version is released, those who want to export their models must install torch>=2.1.0 manually as a pre-release.
### ONNX Inference
To run inference on the exported model, first install `onnxruntime` using