How to install suno ai/ bark into VSCODE

[robertckl]

I had lots of difficulties to install SUNO-AI / Bark into VS Code, due to SSL certificate/self-signed cert errors, so want to provide summary steps on how to do it as an alternative (Non secured way):

1. Install GIT (As I didn't even had GIT): https://git-scm.com/downloads
2. Clone BARK without trusting SSL: "git clone -c http.sslVerify=false https://github.com/suno-ai/bark.git"
3. Install by trusting PIP: "pip install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org ."

Again this is bypassing the SSL Certificates and trust issues, thus use at own risk :)

4. Also had to include the huggingface CA bundle to run the "Preload_models()".
   4.1) go to https://huggingface.co/ and downloaded certificate bundle as certificate chain
   4.2) save to local folder
   4.3) add the lines:
   import os
   os.environ['REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE']=r"xxxxxx\huggingface.co.crt" (replace the 'x' with the path)