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license: mit
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license: mit
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- en
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library_name: mlx
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pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
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- nlp
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- tts
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- bark
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## Model Summary
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Bark is a transformer based text-to-audio model that can generate speech and miscellaneous audio i.e. background noise / music.
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This is a port of Suno's Bark model in Apple's ML Framework, MLX. The intention of the port is to explore the potential in making fast on-device TTS inference possible.
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This repository contains the Bark weights in `npz` format suitable for use with Apple's MLX Framework.
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## Usage
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```bash
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# Setup
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pip install transformers huggingface_hub hf_transfer
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git clone https://github.com/j-csc/mlx_bark
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cd mlx_bark
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pip install -r requirements.txt
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# Download model
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export HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1
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huggingface-cli download --local-dir-use-symlinks False --local-dir weights/ mlx-community/mlx_bark
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# Run example (large model)
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python model.py --text="Hello world!" --path weights/ --model large
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