Does not support espeak-ng on the backend.
smarter83 opened this issue · comments
Describe the bug
To use the phonemizer with espeak as described in the documentation, I installed espeak-ng.
However, when I run it from the command line, I get the following error.
$ echo "hello world" | phonemize -l en-us -b espeak
fatal error: espeak not installed on your system
When I run the code using python in vscode, I get the message "RuntimeError espeak not installed on your system".
$ phonemize --version
phonemizer-3.2.1
available backends: segments-2.2.1
uninstalled backends: espeak, espeak-mbrola, festival
When I look at the Command Line Examples in Phonemizer's documentation, it says that espeak-ng is supported when I type --version, but as shown above, only espeak is supported and espeak-ng does not appear.
Please let me know how I can fix the error and get Phonemizer running with espeak-ng.
Phonemizer version
$ phonemize --version
phonemizer-3.2.1
available backends: segments-2.2.1
uninstalled backends: espeak, espeak-mbrola, festival
System
Windows 10
Python 3.10.10 64-bit
espeak-ng-X64.msi version 1.51
To reproduce
from phonemizer.backend import EspeakBackend
en_backend = EspeakBackend(
"en-us",
preserve_punctuation=True,
with_stress=True,
language_switch="remove-flags",
words_mismatch="ignore",
)
en_sentence = ["I love to eat pizza everyday"]
print(en_backend.phonemize(en_sentence, njobs=1, strip=True))
# An exception was thrown. RuntimeError espeak not installed on your system
Duplicate of #44.
Because your are on Windows, you may need to specify to path to libespeak-ng.dll in the PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_LIBRARY environment variable. See #44 (comment).