# Basque Unit-HiFiGAN Vocoder (Voices: Mariana & Alex) ## Model Summary This repository provides a Unit-HiFiGAN vocoder trained to synthesize high-fidelity Basque speech from discrete HuBERT-derived unit sequences. The model supports two speaker identities, Mariana and Alex, using learned speaker-conditioning embeddings. It is compatible with HuBERT features extracted from layer 9 and clustered using a KMeans (k=1000) quantizer. The vocoder is designed for unit-based text-to-speech, voice conversion, and speech synthesis research in Basque. It reconstructs waveform audio from sequences of discrete unit IDs and optional speaker embeddings. ## Key Features Voices: Mariana and Alex Architecture: Unit-HiFiGAN (SpeechBrain implementation) Input: Discrete HuBERT units (1D sequence of cluster IDs) Output: 16 kHz Basque speech signal Speaker conditioning: Single-speaker or multi-speaker inference via speaker embeddings Compatible encoders: Basque-finetuned HuBERT (layer 9 hidden states → KMeans) Use cases: Basque TTS research, unit-based synthesis, voice conversion, controllable speaker identity ## How to Use Install speechbrain: ``` pip install speechbrain ``` Below is a minimal inference example that replicates the expected workflow: ``` import torch import torchaudio import joblib import numpy as np from transformers import Wav2Vec2Processor, HubertModel from speechbrain.inference.vocoders import UnitHIFIGAN from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download DEVICE = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu" SR = 16000 # 1. Load HuBERT processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("your-hubert-repo") hubert = HubertModel.from_pretrained("your-hubert-repo").to(DEVICE).eval() # 2. Load KMeans kmeans_path = hf_hub_download("your-hubert-repo", "kmeans/basque_hubert_k1000_L9.pt") kmeans = joblib.load(kmeans_path) # 3. Load vocoder vocoder = UnitHIFIGAN.from_hparams( source="your-vocoder-repo", run_opts={"device": DEVICE} ).eval() # 4. Load audio wav, sr = torchaudio.load("example.wav") wav = torchaudio.functional.resample(wav, sr, SR) # 5. HuBERT → units inputs = processor(wav, sampling_rate=SR, return_tensors="pt") inputs["input_values"] = inputs["input_values"].to(DEVICE) with torch.no_grad(): hidden = hubert(**inputs, output_hidden_states=True).hidden_states[9] features = hidden.squeeze(0).cpu().numpy() unit_ids = kmeans.predict(features) units = torch.LongTensor(unit_ids).unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(-1).to(DEVICE) # 6. Optional speaker embedding (Mariana or Alex) # Example: load Mariana's embedding spk_emb = torch.FloatTensor( np.load("speaker_embeddings/mariana.npy") ).unsqueeze(0).to(DEVICE) # 7. Vocoder decode with torch.no_grad(): wav_out = vocoder.decode_batch(units, spk_emb=spk_emb) torchaudio.save("output_mariana.wav", wav_out.cpu(), SR) print("Saved: output_mariana.wav") ```