#Is it possible to use Runpod to finetune a text to speech model

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near cliff
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I am not super tech savvy so I am unsure if this is possible, The TTS is (https://github.com/erew123/alltalk_tts) I know how to connect to runpod via SSH but I dont know how to connecting the two would work if its possible at all.

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AllTalk is based on the Coqui TTS engine, similar to the Coqui_tts extension for Text generation webUI, however supports a variety of advanced features, such as a settings page, low VRAM support, D...

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unique tiger
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How to connect two what?

near cliff
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basically use runpod as my gpu to train the model

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Alltalk tts has its own batch files to run finetuning, only issue is my GPU doesnt have enough VRAM to run it in a reasonable time hence runpod

latent rivet
near cliff
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so essentially install everything and move all data into the pod itself train it there and then redownload it back to main machine?

latent rivet
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yeah, or you can pull/save file from cloud storage like aws s3, google drive and etc.

near cliff
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the pod itself doesn't actually have visual GUI right, just command line? because the finetuning software is run with GUI without commandline options that I know of

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I very unfamiliar with runpod itself so I assume it isn't exactly like a virtual machine

latent rivet
# near cliff I very unfamiliar with runpod itself so I assume it isn't exactly like a virtual...

some templates will spin up a web server and you can "view" your pod from browser. RunPod is basically docker container, you can think it is very light weight VM.
https://docs.runpod.io/tutorials/introduction/containers/overview

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