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The official implementation of "A Language Modeling Approach to Diacritic-Free Hebrew TTS"
https://github.com/slp-rl/HebTTS

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# A Language Modeling Approach to Diacritic-Free Hebrew TTS (Interspeech 2024)



Inference code and model weights for the paper "A Language Modeling Approach to Diacritic-Free Hebrew TTS" (Interspeech

2024).







    

    

    






![](imgs/model.jpg)



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**Abstract:** We tackle the task of text-to-speech (TTS) in Hebrew. Traditional Hebrew contains Diacritics (`Niqqud'),

 which dictate the way individuals should pronounce given words, however, modern Hebrew rarely uses them. The lack of

 diacritics in modern Hebrew results in readers expected to conclude the correct pronunciation and understand which

 phonemes to use based on the context. This imposes a fundamental challenge on TTS systems to accurately map between

 text-to-speech. In this study, we propose to adopt a language modeling Diacritics-Free TTS approach, for the task of

 Hebrew TTS. The language model (LM) operates on discrete speech representations and is conditioned on a word-piece

 tokenizer. We optimize the proposed method using in-the-wild weakly supervised recordings and compare it to several

 diacritic based Hebrew TTS systems. Results suggest the proposed method is superior to the evaluated baselines

 considering both content preservation and naturalness of the generated speech.



## Try it out!

You can try our model in the [google colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1f3-6Dqbna9_hI5C9V4qTIG05dixW-r72?usp=sharing) demo.

## Installation



```bash

git clone https://github.com/slp-rl/HebTTS.git

```



We publish our checkpoint

in [google drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/11NoOJzMLRX9q1C_Q4sX0w2b9miiDjGrv/view?usp=share_link).

AR model trained for 1.2M steps and NAR model for 200K steps on [HebDB](https://pages.cs.huji.ac.il/adiyoss-lab/HebDB/).



```bash

gdown 11NoOJzMLRX9q1C_Q4sX0w2b9miiDjGrv

```

### Install Dependencies



```bash

pip install torch torchaudio

pip install torchmetrics

pip install omegaconf

pip install git+https://github.com/lhotse-speech/lhotse

pip install librosa

pip install encodec

pip install phonemizer

pip install audiocraft  # optional

```



## Inference



You can play with the model with different speakers and text prompts.



run `infer.py`:



```

python infer.py  --checkpoint checkpoint.pt --output-dir ./out --text "היי מה קורה"

```



you can specify additional arguments

`--speaker` and `--top-k`.



### Multi Band Diffusion



> [!TIP] 

> We allow using the new Multi Band Diffusion (MBD) vocoder for generating a better quallity audio.

Install audiocraft and set `--mbd True` flag.



### Text



you can concatenate text prompts using `|` or specify a path of a text file spereated by `\n` if writing Hebrew in

terminal is inconvenient.



```text

תגידו גנבו לכם פעם את האוטו ופשוט ידעתם שאין טעם להגיש תלונה במשטרה

היי מה קורה

בראשית היתה חללית מסוג נחתת

```



and run



```

python infer.py  --checkpoint checkpoint.pt --output-dir ./out --text example.txt

```



### Speakers



you can use the speaker defined in `speakers.yaml`, or add additional speakers.

specify wav files and transcription in same format.



```

--speaker shaul

```



## Citation



```bibtex

@article{roth2024language,

  title={A Language Modeling Approach to Diacritic-Free Hebrew TTS},

  author={Roth, Amit and Turetzky, Arnon and Adi, Yossi},

  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.12206},

  year={2024}

}

```



## Acknowledgments

- Model code inside `valle` is based on the implementation of [Feiteng Li](https://github.com/lifeiteng/vall-e).