TTS/config.json

{
    "run_name": "bos",
    "run_description": "bos character added to get away with the first char miss",

    "audio":{
        // Audio processing parameters
        "num_mels": 80,         // size of the mel spec frame. 
        "num_freq": 1025,       // number of stft frequency levels. Size of the linear spectogram frame.
        "sample_rate": 22050,   // wav sample-rate. If different than the original data, it is resampled.
        "frame_length_ms": 50,  // stft window length in ms.
        "frame_shift_ms": 12.5, // stft window hop-lengh in ms.
        "preemphasis": 0.98,    // pre-emphasis to reduce spec noise and make it more structured. If 0.0, no -pre-emphasis.
        "min_level_db": -100,   // normalization range
        "ref_level_db": 20,     // reference level db, theoretically 20db is the sound of air.
        "power": 1.5,           // value to sharpen wav signals after GL algorithm.
        "griffin_lim_iters": 60,// #griffin-lim iterations. 30-60 is a good range. Larger the value, slower the generation.
        // Normalization parameters
        "signal_norm": true,    // normalize the spec values in range [0, 1]
        "symmetric_norm": false, // move normalization to range [-1, 1]
        "max_norm": 1,          // scale normalization to range [-max_norm, max_norm] or [0, max_norm]
        "clip_norm": true,      // clip normalized values into the range.
        "mel_fmin": 0.0,         // minimum freq level for mel-spec. ~50 for male and ~95 for female voices. Tune for dataset!!
        "mel_fmax": 8000.0,        // maximum freq level for mel-spec. Tune for dataset!!
        "do_trim_silence": false  // enable trimming of slience of audio as you load it. LJspeech (false), TWEB (false), Nancy (true)
    },

    "distributed":{
        "backend": "nccl",
        "url": "tcp:\/\/localhost:54321"
    },

    "reinit_layers": ["model.decoder.attention_layer"],  //set which layers to be reinitialized in finetunning. Only used if --restore_model is provided.

    "model": "Tacotron2",   // one of the model in models/    
    "grad_clip": 0.02,      // upper limit for gradients for clipping.
    "epochs": 1000,         // total number of epochs to train.
    "lr": 0.0001,            // Initial learning rate. If Noam decay is active, maximum learning rate.
    "lr_decay": false,      // if true, Noam learning rate decaying is applied through training.
    "warmup_steps": 4000,   // Noam decay steps to increase the learning rate from 0 to "lr"
    "windowing": false,      // Enables attention windowing. Used only in eval mode.
    "memory_size": 5,       // TO BE IMPLEMENTED -- memory queue size used to queue network predictions to feed autoregressive connection. Useful if r < 5. 
    "attention_norm": "softmax",   // softmax or sigmoid. Suggested to use softmax for Tacotron2 and sigmoid for Tacotron.

    "batch_size": 16,       // Batch size for training. Lower values than 32 might cause hard to learn attention.
    "eval_batch_size":16,   
    "r": 1,                 // Number of frames to predict for step.
    "wd": 0.000002,         // Weight decay weight.
    "checkpoint": true,     // If true, it saves checkpoints per "save_step"
    "save_step": 1000,      // Number of training steps expected to save traning stats and checkpoints.
    "print_step": 10,       // Number of steps to log traning on console.
    "tb_model_param_stats": false,     // true, plots param stats per layer on tensorboard. Might be memory consuming, but good for debugging. 
    "batch_group_size": 8,  //Number of batches to shuffle after bucketing.

    "run_eval": true,
    "test_delay_epochs": 100,  //Until attention is aligned, testing only wastes computation time.
    "data_path": "/media/erogol/data_ssd/Data/LJSpeech-1.1",  // DATASET-RELATED: can overwritten from command argument
    "meta_file_train": "metadata_train.csv",      // DATASET-RELATED: metafile for training dataloader.
    "meta_file_val": "metadata_val.csv",    // DATASET-RELATED: metafile for evaluation dataloader.
    "dataset": "ljspeech",      // DATASET-RELATED: one of TTS.dataset.preprocessors depending on your target dataset. Use "tts_cache" for pre-computed dataset by extract_features.py
    "min_seq_len": 0,       // DATASET-RELATED: minimum text length to use in training
    "max_seq_len": 1000,     // DATASET-RELATED: maximum text length
    "output_path": "/media/erogol/data_ssd/Data/models/ljspeech_models/",      // DATASET-RELATED: output path for all training outputs.
    "num_loader_workers": 8,        // number of training data loader processes. Don't set it too big. 4-8 are good values.
    "num_val_loader_workers": 4,    // number of evaluation data loader processes.
    "phoneme_cache_path": "ljspeech_us_phonemes",  // phoneme computation is slow, therefore, it caches results in the given folder.
    "use_phonemes": true,           // use phonemes instead of raw characters. It is suggested for better pronounciation.
    "phoneme_language": "en-us",     // depending on your target language, pick one from  https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer#languages
    "text_cleaner": "phoneme_cleaners"
}