Help with TTS and/or voice changers

[turbid ruin]

Hi! I'm making a VTuber and I'm looking for free cute/childish TTS and/or voice changer AIs for free, but I have zero knowledge about this world yet, just a little bit when I used to play around with Stable Diffusion a year ago. Are there any free good options? I tried Voxify and some others but there's always a very small character limit, though I really liked some voices they have.

Here's my setup (it can't run local SD iirc but idk about TTS AIs)

Ryzen 5 5600
16gb ram
RX580 4GB

Thanks in advance!

[abstract phoenix]

For voice changer I recommend this forked wokada, gives better performance for AMD gpus like yours
https://rentry.co/Forkvoicechangerguide

For voices you can search on weights.gg or in #1175430844685484042 , if you want childish cute ones you can check Gura for example

[turbid ruin]

thank you! Will take a look into it

[last obsidian]

do you really need realtime TTS or just voice changer?
you can't freely do many things with just 4 GB vram tho, get the 8+ GB one if you can

[turbid ruin]

for now I'm just planning to do videos, nothing in realtime, so I'm planning to write a script and make it in the voice I want, something similar to this

[ancient shard]

Ayo? @turbid ruin level 1 !!!

[turbid ruin]

I really liked this one but sadly it's not free

[last obsidian]

basically using TTS is possible, but can you type as fast as normal ppl speaking?

[turbid ruin]

yes, almost at the same rate, but for now I'm most focused on making videos rather than livestreams, so it's fine I think

[last obsidian]

• for just narratives/presentation contents, try fishspeech 1.4
  https://huggingface.co/spaces/fishaudio/fish-speech-1 (or download the repo)
• elevenlabs is the best freemium option
• you can convert TTS outputs using RVC, I'd recommend ilaria RVC to do so
  https://huggingface.co/spaces/TheStinger/Ilaria_RVC

[turbid ruin]

ohh, so in this case, the models are the voices, right?

[turbid ruin]

oh cool, I was able to find this exact voice on the Ilaria RVC, thank you! Just a question, does it have unlimited uses?

[last obsidian]

it may have hourly limit, or you can try port it locally, it worked on me

Applio is the alternative that is available locally and in huggingface, but somehow I'd recommend ilaria RVC

[turbid ruin]

okayy, is there a tutorial on how to port it?

[last obsidian]

if you know how to make venv and install on it

this guide covers the usage tho https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YbXcLFPaGjhOdG5NFkK3QrucCEpHZBwFUxkeMO8aB18/edit

well I can share you these .bat files to install and run (using Python 3.10)

[turbid ruin]

thank youu so much, I'll try it

[turbid ruin]

I'm sorry but actually I'm a complete beginner at this, so what should I do after running these .bat files?

[last obsidian]

when it shows the local url, copy paste it in your browser

[turbid ruin]

oh

[ancient shard]

Ayo? @turbid ruin level 2 !!!

[turbid ruin]

okayy, which one should I choose? (assuming this is the right place lol)

[last obsidian]

that's prob old

I'm surprised you haven't cloned from the huggingface space

[turbid ruin]

oh, I didn't know I could clone spaces

awesome, I'll try it

[turbid ruin]

I tried running these but the install_packages closes automatically after a while and the app.bat doesn't even show anything

[last obsidian]

most likely a skill issue, make sure python 3.10 is installed correctly with the environment variables

also ideally put the cloned one in any path other than C: drive, not even onedrive

[turbid ruin]

hmm so python should be installed outside C: drive

Actually I have python 3.12 installed already, so will it conflict with 3.10?

[last obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/shia-labeouf-absolutely-definitely-agree-gif-8251967

I have said 3.10 twice before, and there's no such "backward compatibility" otherwise some package conflicts may be unable to resolve

[turbid ruin]

Oh, I'm really sorry about that, I had 3.12 installed before this conversation, so I installed 3.10 after you said it, so now I'll leave only 3.10 installed

[last obsidian]

having multiple versions in your system is actually fine, but it is always the best practice to install packages within venv or conda, as done in the bat file I gave you

[turbid ruin]

I managed to take a screenshot before the command prompt crashes, so that's probably why it isn't working

strange, I already have it installed

I'm really sorry for taking so much time of you with this, I'll try to solve it myself

thank you a lot for the help !

[last obsidian]

try install VC++/SDK with win 10/11 SDK

[last obsidian]

or, what if you delete all the pip installs but call pip install -r requirements.txt in the .bat file?

[turbid ruin]

hmm let me try

[turbid ruin]

now I got this error

[last obsidian]

now delete the venv folder, then try this .bat

[turbid ruin]

oki, trying~

[last obsidian]

it should work

[turbid ruin]

same error again

I tried to install the visual c++ but it also gives me an error

I'm losing my sanity

[last obsidian]

no not the same error by pip 24.1

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-really-stressed-mad-angry-gif-16109475

[turbid ruin]

no I mean the visual c++ 14.0 error

[ancient shard]

Ayo? @turbid ruin level 3 !!!

[turbid ruin]

I had visual studio 2022 installed, now I'm removing everything and reinstalling it from scratch

[last obsidian]

VS 2022 should work tho

[turbid ruin]

Yea but when I tried to modify it to add the win11 sdk and stuff it gave me an error saying it was not possible to install Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0

this, translating to english: It was not possible to install Microsoft.VisualCpp.Redist.14.Latest

[last obsidian]

VC build tools, win 11 SDK 10.0.22621.0

I forgot some guides that cover installing the needed VC build tools, win SDK, and shit

[turbid ruin]

it's already checked

ok

for some reason, I repaired it, restarted the pc and it worked (?)

never reach this part before so I think it worked

yea, it just closed telling me to upgrade pip to 24.2

no idea if it actually worked lol

[last obsidian]

no it's supposed to downgrade pip to 23.1

[turbid ruin]

yea, it was just a warning

I guess

FINALLY

thank you sooo much, I really appreciate your patience and efforts~

[turbid ruin]

my last question is how to make the converted audio to sound the same as the TTS preview

the difference is pretty visible

can't I just use the first audio and download it without converting it?

[last obsidian]

use the TTS result as input

[turbid ruin]

I somehow found the audio files

this is the TTS result

and this is after converting it

it changes a lot

though, the download button only appears on the converted version

[last obsidian]

yea it's the model's voice, what issue are u having on it?

[turbid ruin]

oh, I thought this was the model

I actually liked how it sounds, more than the built in test model, so the only way I can get its audio files is by searching manually on the temp files since they're the input?