A standalone cloud-based installer and wrapper for MaryTTS
Just download the latest source code package from the Releases page (the source code is the installer!) and unpack it anywhere on your system.
The MaryTTS Installer can be used on the command line, by changing to the
directory where it was unpacked and running tasks, for example to run
install voice-cmu-slt, do:
$ ./marytts install voice-cmu-slt
> marytts install voice-cmu-slt
The MaryTTS Installer uses Gradle, and will first automatically download it if it isn't already installed.
Before MaryTTS can be used, one or more voices must be installed from the cloud.
This is done by running the install task with one or more selected voices,
for example, to install voice-cmu-slt, change into the directory where you
unpacked the installer and run
marytts install voice-cmu-slt
If no voices are installed, voice-cmu-slt-hsmm will be installed by default.
marytts install voice-cmu-slt
marytts list
marytts info voice-cmu-slt
marytts uninstall voice-cmu-slt
Note that this is effectively the same as simply removing the corresponding
voice files from the installed directory.
marytts server
or simply
marytts
will start a local MaryTTS server with all installed voices.
marytts --info
or simply
marytts -i
will print INFO level log messages from MaryTTS (and Gradle) to the console.
To get DEBUG level log output, run
marytts --debug
or simply
marytts -d
Of course it is also possible to customize the MaryTTS server's environment by
specifying arbitrary properties, just like when invoking java directly.
All downloaded artifacts for MaryTTS and its voices are cached in the local
Gradle home ($HOME/.gradle by default) so that they don't have to be
downloaded again if a voice is uninstalled and then installed again, or if
MaryTTS is also installed into additional directories. Note that this cache also
stores the packaged data files for unit-selection voices, which can be several
hundred MB in size.
In order to free up storage space, it is possible to delete the cached files for an individual voice, like so:
marytts purge voice-cmu-slt
Of course this means that any subsequent installation of the corresponding voice will require downloading the artifacts again. Note that purging a voice's cached files will not uninstall it.
It is possible to customize the location of the download cache by running the
install tasks with the --gradle-user-home (or simply -g) parameter; i.e.,
to use some (possibly new) directory named download as the download cache, run
marytts --gradle-user-home download install voice-cmu-slt
or simply
marytts -g download install voice-cmu-slt
Note that this will also first download Gradle itself into the custom download cache.