Clarification about using file as input text

[gabrieldemarmiesse]

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Hi Kyutai,

At the Github site, one feature of pocket-tts that is highlighted is "Can handle infinitely long text inputs”.

I have been using pocket-tts from the command line, with the syntax like this:

cat text1.txt | pocket-tts generate --voice charles --text -

I get a very nice audio file output, but also warnings, such as:

WARNING: Chunk has 52 tokens (max 50), generation may skip words: '” “The first thing I remember? ” I gave it some th…'

The text files I am inputting (via stdin) are not very long… by the way, is there any other way to indicate that a file of text is to be input? I can’t seem to find any straightforward way to indicate that the input text (to be converted to speech) comes from a file.

I am very sorry for my ignorance, but I believe that an answer to my simple problem will help others as well.

Thank you so much!

[gabrieldemarmiesse]

Hello!

Thanks for the question! Let's unpack that in order:

WARNING: Chunk has 52 tokens (max 50), generation may skip words: '” “The first thing I remember? ” I gave it some th…'

This is an indication that some sentences are quite long (more than 50 tokens) and that the TTS may skip words if the sentences are too long. I'm also noting that you have quotes in the text file: “, I recommend removing the quotes as the TTS might have trouble with it.

is there any other way to indicate that a file of text is to be input?

Currently there is not, using stdin is the way to go here and works correctly. If you have to use a very very very very long file, I suggest using the python API directly which gives more control about the chunking and the for loop that's used to generate the audio.

I hope this helps!

[BeastBlood1885]

I'm also noting that you have quotes in the text file: ", I recommend removing the quotes as the TTS might have trouble with it.

It's fine with regular quotes, but the fancier ones (the smart quotes writing apps tend to convert them to) cause trouble.

I use this tool to replace them.