Overview

Speech Synthesis: Magpie TTS Multilingual Model Overview

Description:

The Magpie TTS Multilingual model converts text into audio (speech).

Magpie TTS is a generative model, designed to be used as the first part of a neural text-to-speech system in conjunction with an audio codec model. This model uses the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for inference and training, and it can output a female or a male voice for English-US and European-Spanish. In addition, it uses character-based encoding for French.

Audio Codec is a neural codec model for speech applications. It is the second part of a two-stage speech synthesis pipeline.

This model is ready for commercial use.

License/Terms of Use:

NVIDIA AI Foundation Models Community License Agreement

References:

TTS model papers: Koel-TTS: Enhancing LLM based Speech Generation with Preference Alignment and Classifier Free Guidance Improving Robustness of LLM-based Speech Synthesis by Learning Monotonic Alignment Low Frame-rate Speech Codec: A Codec Designed for Fast High-quality Speech LLM Training and Inference

Model Architecture:

Network Architecture: T5-TTS + Audio codec T5-TTS is an encoder-decoder transformer model for text-to-speech synthesis that improves robustness by learning monotonic alignment between text and speech tokens. The model takes text tokens and reference audio codes as input and autoregressively predicts acoustic tokens of the target speech. Low Frame Rate Speech Codec - 21Hz is a neural audio compression model that quantizes speech or audio signals into discrete tokens at a low temporal rate of 21 frames per second. The model typically employs a multi-stage encoding process to compress the input audio into a sequence of discrete codes while preserving essential acoustic characteristics despite the aggressive temporal compression. During encoding, it analyzes longer windows of audio to capture relevant acoustic features before downsampling to 21Hz, and during decoding, it uses neural upsampling techniques to reconstruct high-fidelity audio at the original sampling rate. This lower frame rate allows for efficient storage and transmission while still maintaining reasonable audio quality for applications like speech synthesis and audio compression.

Input:

Input Type: Text
Input Format: Strings (Graphemes in US English)
Input Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D)

Output:

Output Type: Audio
Output Format: Audio of shape (batch x time) in wav format
Output Parameters: Mono, PCM-encoded 16 bit audio; sampling rate of 22.05 kHz; 20 Second Maximum Length; Depending on input, this model can output a female or a male voice for English US with two (2) emotions for the female voice and six (6) emotions for male voices. The female voice is classified as “neutral” and “calm.” The male voice is classified as “neutral,” “calm,” “happy,” and “fearful”, “sad”, and “angry.”

Software Integration:

Runtime Engine(s): Riva 2.19.0 or greater

Supported Hardware Platform(s):

• NVIDIA Volta V100
  
• NVIDIA Turing T4
  
• NVIDIA A100 GPU
  
• NVIDIA A30 GPU
  
• NVIDIA A10 GPU
  
• NVIDIA H100 GPU
  
• NVIDIA L4 GPU
  
• NVIDIA L40 GPU
  

Supported Operating System(s):

• Linux
  

Inference

Engine: Triton
Test Hardware:

• NVIDIA Volta V100
  
• NVIDIA Turing T4
  
• NVIDIA A100 GPU
  
• NVIDIA A30 GPU
  
• NVIDIA A10 GPU
  
• NVIDIA H100 GPU
  
• NVIDIA L4 GPU
  
• NVIDIA L40 GPU
  

Model Version(s):

magpie-tts-multilingual v1

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