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license: other
language:
- eng
tags:
- tts
- text-to-speech
- speech-synthesis
- voice-cloning
library_name: ttsdb
pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
base_model:
- jbetker/tortoise-tts-v2
---
# TorToise
> **This is a mirror of the original weights for use with [TTSDB](https://github.com/ttsds/ttsdb).**
>
> Original weights: [https://huggingface.co/jbetker/tortoise-tts-v2](https://huggingface.co/jbetker/tortoise-tts-v2)
> Original code: [https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts.git](https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts.git)
Tortoise TTS voice cloning model.
## Original Work
This model was created by the original authors. Please cite their work if you use this model:
```bibtex
@misc{betker2023betterspeechsynthesisscaling,
title={Better speech synthesis through scaling},
author={James Betker},
year={2023},
eprint={2305.07243},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.SD},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07243},
}
```
**Papers:**
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07243
## Installation
```bash
pip install ttsdb-tortoise
```
## Usage
```python
from ttsdb_tortoise import TorToise
# Load the model (downloads weights automatically)
model = TorToise(model_id="ttsds/TorToise")
# Synthesize speech
audio, sample_rate = model.synthesize(
text="Hello, this is a test of TorToise.",
reference_audio="path/to/reference.wav",
text_reference="Transcript of the reference audio.",
language="en",
)
# Save the output
model.save_audio(audio, sample_rate, "output.wav")
```
## Model Details
| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| **Sample Rate** | 24000 Hz |
| **Parameters** | 960M |
| **Architecture** | Autoregressive, Diffusion, Language Modeling |
| **Languages** | English |
| **Release Date** | 2022-05-17 |
### Training Data
- [LibriTTS](https://www.openslr.org/60/)
- [HifiTTS]()
## License
- **Weights:** Other (see original repository)
- **Code:** Apache License 2.0
Please refer to the original repositories for full license terms.
## Links
- **Original Code:** [https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts.git](https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts.git)
- **Original Weights:** [https://huggingface.co/jbetker/tortoise-tts-v2](https://huggingface.co/jbetker/tortoise-tts-v2)
- **TTSDB Package:** [ttsdb-tortoise](https://pypi.org/project/ttsdb-tortoise/)
- **TTSDB GitHub:** [https://github.com/ttsds/ttsdb](https://github.com/ttsds/ttsdb)