OuteTTS v0.2.0 Release

OuteTTS v0.2.0 Release Notes

Major Changes

• New Model Support: Added support for OuteTTS-0.2-500M model
• Speaker Management: Introduced default speaker presets for each supported language
• Breaking Changes:
  • Speaker files from previous versions (<0.2.0) are not compatible
  • Interface usage has been significantly revised (see README.md for new implementation)

New Features

• Added voice cloning guidelines and interface usage recommendations in README.md
• Implemented Gradio example playground for OuteTTS-0.2-500M
• Multi-language alignment support
• Enhanced speaker management:
  • New methods: interface.print_default_speakers() and interface.load_default_speaker(name="male_1")
  • Switched from pickle to JSON format for speaker saving
  • Added speaker language information in saved files
• Option to load WavTokenizer from custom path (resolves issue #24)
• Multiple interface version initialization in a single function

Improvements

• Restructured library files for better organization
• Implemented hash verification for WavTokenizer downloads (resolves issue #3)
• Reworked interface for better usability
• Made sounddevice optional with improved error handling for sound playback
• Added data preparation examples for training

Error Handling

• Added validation for audio token detection
• Improved error messages for long input text and early EOS cases
• Enhanced overall library error handling and feedback

How to Upgrade

• Update your library via pip:

  pip install --upgrade outetts