I try to train LjSpeech dataset with TTS and multiband-melgan, but in the output I get only noise and no voice at all. Here are the configs that I use:
TTS config:
{
“model”: “Tacotron2”,
“run_name”: “ljspeech-ddc”,
“run_description”: “tacotron2 with DDC and differential spectral loss.”,
// AUDIO PARAMETERS
"audio":{
// stft parameters
"fft_size": 1024, // number of stft frequency levels. Size of the linear spectogram frame.
"win_length": 1024, // stft window length in ms.
"hop_length": 256, // stft window hop-lengh in ms.
"frame_length_ms": null, // stft window length in ms.If null, 'win_length' is used.
"frame_shift_ms": null, // stft window hop-lengh in ms. If null, 'hop_length' is used.
// Audio processing parameters
"sample_rate": 22050, // DATASET-RELATED: wav sample-rate.
"preemphasis": 0.0, // pre-emphasis to reduce spec noise and make it more structured. If 0.0, no -pre-emphasis.
"ref_level_db": 20, // reference level db, theoretically 20db is the sound of air.
// Silence trimming
"do_trim_silence": true,// enable trimming of slience of audio as you load it. LJspeech (true), TWEB (false), Nancy (true)
"trim_db": 60, // threshold for timming silence. Set this according to your dataset.
// Griffin-Lim
"power": 1.5, // value to sharpen wav signals after GL algorithm.
"griffin_lim_iters": 60,// #griffin-lim iterations. 30-60 is a good range. Larger the value, slower the generation.
// MelSpectrogram parameters
"num_mels": 80, // size of the mel spec frame.
"mel_fmin": 50.0, // minimum freq level for mel-spec. ~50 for male and ~95 for female voices. Tune for dataset!!
"mel_fmax": 7600.0, // maximum freq level for mel-spec. Tune for dataset!!
"spec_gain": 1,
// Normalization parameters
"signal_norm": true, // normalize spec values. Mean-Var normalization if 'stats_path' is defined otherwise range normalization defined by the other params.
"min_level_db": -100, // lower bound for normalization
"symmetric_norm": true, // move normalization to range [-1, 1]
"max_norm": 4.0, // scale normalization to range [-max_norm, max_norm] or [0, max_norm]
"clip_norm": true, // clip normalized values into the range.
"stats_path": null // DO NOT USE WITH MULTI_SPEAKER MODEL. scaler stats file computed by 'compute_statistics.py'. If it is defined, mean-std based notmalization is used and other normalization params are ignored
},
// VOCABULARY PARAMETERS
// if custom character set is not defined,
// default set in symbols.py is used
// "characters":{
// "pad": "_",
// "eos": "~",
// "bos": "^",
// "characters": "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!'(),-.:;? ",
// "punctuations":"!'(),-.:;? ",
// "phonemes":"iyɨʉɯuɪʏʊeøɘəɵɤoɛœɜɞʌɔæɐaɶɑɒᵻʘɓǀɗǃʄǂɠǁʛpbtdʈɖcɟkɡqɢʔɴŋɲɳnɱmʙrʀⱱɾɽɸβfvθðszʃʒʂʐçʝxɣχʁħʕhɦɬɮʋɹɻjɰlɭʎʟˈˌːˑʍwɥʜʢʡɕʑɺɧɚ˞ɫ"
// },
// DISTRIBUTED TRAINING
"distributed":{
"backend": "nccl",
"url": "tcp:\/\/localhost:54321"
},
"reinit_layers": [], // give a list of layer names to restore from the given checkpoint. If not defined, it reloads all heuristically matching layers.
// TRAINING
"batch_size": 32, // Batch size for training. Lower values than 32 might cause hard to learn attention. It is overwritten by 'gradual_training'.
"eval_batch_size":16,
"r": 7, // Number of decoder frames to predict per iteration. Set the initial values if gradual training is enabled.
"gradual_training": [[0, 7, 64], [1, 5, 64], [50000, 3, 32], [130000, 2, 32], [290000, 1, 32]], //set gradual training steps [first_step, r, batch_size]. If it is null, gradual training is disabled. For Tacotron, you might need to reduce the 'batch_size' as you proceeed.
"apex_amp_level": null, // level of optimization with NVIDIA's apex feature for automatic mixed FP16/FP32 precision (AMP), NOTE: currently only O1 is supported, and use "O1" to activate.
// LOSS SETTINGS
"loss_masking": true, // enable / disable loss masking against the sequence padding.
"decoder_loss_alpha": 0.5, // decoder loss weight. If > 0, it is enabled
"postnet_loss_alpha": 0.25, // postnet loss weight. If > 0, it is enabled
"ga_alpha": 5.0, // weight for guided attention loss. If > 0, guided attention is enabled.
"diff_spec_alpha": 0.25, // differential spectral loss weight. If > 0, it is enabled
// VALIDATION
"run_eval": true,
"test_delay_epochs": 10, //Until attention is aligned, testing only wastes computation time.
"test_sentences_file": null, // set a file to load sentences to be used for testing. If it is null then we use default english sentences.
// OPTIMIZER
"noam_schedule": false, // use noam warmup and lr schedule.
"grad_clip": 1.0, // upper limit for gradients for clipping.
"epochs": 100, // total number of epochs to train.
"lr": 0.0001, // Initial learning rate. If Noam decay is active, maximum learning rate.
"wd": 0.000001, // Weight decay weight.
"warmup_steps": 4000, // Noam decay steps to increase the learning rate from 0 to "lr"
"seq_len_norm": false, // Normalize eash sample loss with its length to alleviate imbalanced datasets. Use it if your dataset is small or has skewed distribution of sequence lengths.
// TACOTRON PRENET
"memory_size": -1, // ONLY TACOTRON - size of the memory queue used fro storing last decoder predictions for auto-regression. If < 0, memory queue is disabled and decoder only uses the last prediction frame.
"prenet_type": "original", // "original" or "bn".
"prenet_dropout": false, // enable/disable dropout at prenet.
// TACOTRON ATTENTION
"attention_type": "original", // 'original' or 'graves'
"attention_heads": 4, // number of attention heads (only for 'graves')
"attention_norm": "sigmoid", // softmax or sigmoid.
"windowing": false, // Enables attention windowing. Used only in eval mode.
"use_forward_attn": false, // if it uses forward attention. In general, it aligns faster.
"forward_attn_mask": false, // Additional masking forcing monotonicity only in eval mode.
"transition_agent": false, // enable/disable transition agent of forward attention.
"location_attn": true, // enable_disable location sensitive attention. It is enabled for TACOTRON by default.
"bidirectional_decoder": false, // use https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09006. Use it, if attention does not work well with your dataset.
"double_decoder_consistency": true, // use DDC explained here https://erogol.com/solving-attention-problems-of-tts-models-with-double-decoder-consistency-draft/
"ddc_r": 7, // reduction rate for coarse decoder.
// STOPNET
"stopnet": true, // Train stopnet predicting the end of synthesis.
"separate_stopnet": true, // Train stopnet seperately if 'stopnet==true'. It prevents stopnet loss to influence the rest of the model. It causes a better model, but it trains SLOWER.
// TENSORBOARD and LOGGING
"print_step": 25, // Number of steps to log training on console.
"tb_plot_step": 100, // Number of steps to plot TB training figures.
"print_eval": false, // If True, it prints intermediate loss values in evalulation.
"save_step": 10000, // Number of training steps expected to save traninpg stats and checkpoints.
"checkpoint": true, // If true, it saves checkpoints per "save_step"
"tb_model_param_stats": false, // true, plots param stats per layer on tensorboard. Might be memory consuming, but good for debugging.
// DATA LOADING
"text_cleaner": "phoneme_cleaners",
"enable_eos_bos_chars": false, // enable/disable beginning of sentence and end of sentence chars.
"num_loader_workers": 4, // number of training data loader processes. Don't set it too big. 4-8 are good values.
"num_val_loader_workers": 4, // number of evaluation data loader processes.
"batch_group_size": 4, //Number of batches to shuffle after bucketing.
"min_seq_len": 6, // DATASET-RELATED: minimum text length to use in training
"max_seq_len": 153, // DATASET-RELATED: maximum text length
// PATHS
"output_path": "/home/dias/Downloads/Models/LJSpeech/",
// PHONEMES
"phoneme_cache_path": "/home/dias/Downloads/Models/phoneme_cache/", // phoneme computation is slow, therefore, it caches results in the given folder.
"use_phonemes": true, // use phonemes instead of raw characters. It is suggested for better pronounciation.
"phoneme_language": "en-us", // depending on your target language, pick one from https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer#languages
// MULTI-SPEAKER and GST
"use_speaker_embedding": false, // use speaker embedding to enable multi-speaker learning.
"use_gst": false, // use global style tokens
"use_external_speaker_embedding_file": false, // if true, forces the model to use external embedding per sample instead of nn.embeddings, that is, it supports external embeddings such as those used at: https://arxiv.org/abs /1806.04558
"external_speaker_embedding_file": "../../speakers-vctk-en.json", // if not null and use_external_speaker_embedding_file is true, it is used to load a specific embedding file and thus uses these embeddings instead of nn.embeddings, that is, it supports external embeddings such as those used at: https://arxiv.org/abs /1806.04558
"gst": { // gst parameter if gst is enabled
"gst_style_input": null, // Condition the style input either on a
// -> wave file [path to wave] or
// -> dictionary using the style tokens {'token1': 'value', 'token2': 'value'} example {"0": 0.15, "1": 0.15, "5": -0.15}
// with the dictionary being len(dict) <= len(gst_style_tokens).
"gst_embedding_dim": 512,
"gst_num_heads": 4,
"gst_style_tokens": 10,
"gst_use_speaker_embedding": false
},
// DATASETS
"datasets": // List of datasets. They all merged and they get different speaker_ids.
[
{
"name": "ljspeech",
"path": "/home/dias/Downloads/LJSpeech-1.1/",
"meta_file_train": "metadata.csv", // for vtck if list, ignore speakers id in list for train, its useful for test cloning with new speakers
"meta_file_val": null
}
]
}
Vocoder config:
{
“run_name”: “multiband-melgan”,
“run_description”: “multiband melgan mean-var scaling”,
// AUDIO PARAMETERS
"audio":{
"fft_size": 1024, // number of stft frequency levels. Size of the linear spectogram frame.
"win_length": 1024, // stft window length in ms.
"hop_length": 256, // stft window hop-lengh in ms.
"frame_length_ms": null, // stft window length in ms.If null, 'win_length' is used.
"frame_shift_ms": null, // stft window hop-lengh in ms. If null, 'hop_length' is used.
// Audio processing parameters
"sample_rate": 22050, // DATASET-RELATED: wav sample-rate. If different than the original data, it is resampled.
"preemphasis": 0.0, // pre-emphasis to reduce spec noise and make it more structured. If 0.0, no -pre-emphasis.
"ref_level_db": 0, // reference level db, theoretically 20db is the sound of air.
// Silence trimming
"do_trim_silence": true,// enable trimming of slience of audio as you load it. LJspeech (false), TWEB (false), Nancy (true)
"trim_db": 60, // threshold for timming silence. Set this according to your dataset.
// MelSpectrogram parameters
"num_mels": 80, // size of the mel spec frame.
"mel_fmin": 50.0, // minimum freq level for mel-spec. ~50 for male and ~95 for female voices. Tune for dataset!!
"mel_fmax": 7600.0, // maximum freq level for mel-spec. Tune for dataset!!
"spec_gain": 1.0, // scaler value appplied after log transform of spectrogram.
// Normalization parameters
"signal_norm": true, // normalize spec values. Mean-Var normalization if 'stats_path' is defined otherwise range normalization defined by the other params.
"min_level_db": -100, // lower bound for normalization
"symmetric_norm": true, // move normalization to range [-1, 1]
"max_norm": 4.0, // scale normalization to range [-max_norm, max_norm] or [0, max_norm]
"clip_norm": true, // clip normalized values into the range.
"stats_path": null // DO NOT USE WITH MULTI_SPEAKER MODEL. scaler stats file computed by 'compute_statistics.py'. If it is defined, mean-std based notmalization is used and other normalization params are ignored
},
// DISTRIBUTED TRAINING
// "distributed":{
// "backend": "nccl",
// "url": "tcp:\/\/localhost:54321"
// },
// LOSS PARAMETERS
"use_stft_loss": true,
"use_subband_stft_loss": true, // use only with multi-band models.
"use_mse_gan_loss": true,
"use_hinge_gan_loss": false,
"use_feat_match_loss": false, // use only with melgan discriminators
// loss weights
"stft_loss_weight": 0.5,
"subband_stft_loss_weight": 0.5,
"mse_G_loss_weight": 2.5,
"hinge_G_loss_weight": 2.5,
"feat_match_loss_weight": 25,
// multiscale stft loss parameters
"stft_loss_params": {
"n_ffts": [1024, 2048, 512],
"hop_lengths": [120, 240, 50],
"win_lengths": [600, 1200, 240]
},
// subband multiscale stft loss parameters
"subband_stft_loss_params":{
"n_ffts": [384, 683, 171],
"hop_lengths": [30, 60, 10],
"win_lengths": [150, 300, 60]
},
"target_loss": "avg_G_loss", // loss value to pick the best model to save after each epoch
// DISCRIMINATOR
"discriminator_model": "melgan_multiscale_discriminator",
"discriminator_model_params":{
"base_channels": 16,
"max_channels":512,
"downsample_factors":[4, 4, 4]
},
"steps_to_start_discriminator": 200000, // steps required to start GAN trainining.1
// GENERATOR
"generator_model": "multiband_melgan_generator",
"generator_model_params": {
"upsample_factors":[8, 4, 2],
"num_res_blocks": 4
},
// DATASET
"data_path": "/home/dias/Downloads/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/",
"feature_path": null,
"seq_len": 16384,
"pad_short": 2000,
"conv_pad": 0,
"use_noise_augment": false,
"use_cache": true,
"reinit_layers": [], // give a list of layer names to restore from the given checkpoint. If not defined, it reloads all heuristically matching layers.
// TRAINING
"batch_size": 64, // Batch size for training. Lower values than 32 might cause hard to learn attention. It is overwritten by 'gradual_training'.
// VALIDATION
"run_eval": true,
"test_delay_epochs": 10, //Until attention is aligned, testing only wastes computation time.
"test_sentences_file": null, // set a file to load sentences to be used for testing. If it is null then we use default english sentences.
// OPTIMIZER
"epochs": 100, // total number of epochs to train.
"wd": 0.0, // Weight decay weight.
"gen_clip_grad": -1, // Generator gradient clipping threshold. Apply gradient clipping if > 0
"disc_clip_grad": -1, // Discriminator gradient clipping threshold.
"lr_scheduler_gen": "MultiStepLR", // one of the schedulers from https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/optim.html#how-to-adjust-learning-rate
"lr_scheduler_gen_params": {
"gamma": 0.5,
"milestones": [100000, 200000, 300000, 400000, 500000, 600000]
},
"lr_scheduler_disc": "MultiStepLR", // one of the schedulers from https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/optim.html#how-to-adjust-learning-rate
"lr_scheduler_disc_params": {
"gamma": 0.5,
"milestones": [100000, 200000, 300000, 400000, 500000, 600000]
},
"lr_gen": 1e-4, // Initial learning rate. If Noam decay is active, maximum learning rate.
"lr_disc": 1e-4,
// TENSORBOARD and LOGGING
"print_step": 25, // Number of steps to log traning on console.
"print_eval": false, // If True, it prints loss values for each step in eval run.
"save_step": 25000, // Number of training steps expected to plot training stats on TB and save model checkpoints.
"checkpoint": true, // If true, it saves checkpoints per "save_step"
"tb_model_param_stats": false, // true, plots param stats per layer on tensorboard. Might be memory consuming, but good for debugging.
// DATA LOADING
"num_loader_workers": 4, // number of training data loader processes. Don't set it too big. 4-8 are good values.
"num_val_loader_workers": 4, // number of evaluation data loader processes.
"eval_split_size": 10,
// PATHS
"output_path": "/home/dias/Downloads/Models/LJSpeech/"
}
Any ideas what I did wrong?
