Odd result from current version of the model

Hey, I’m not sure this is the best place to report this or if it’s a bug with the docker version or upstream models but figured I’d ask you.

I have a pretty simple input:

Some important terms you should know.

Which generates a very strange result of the sentence, followed by the last word repeated endlessly until it runs out of processing time.

I ran a couple tests: with the latest available container (7118de96680b) and one from 2 days ago (ae5bf234ed9b) that both generate this result:

$ curl --silent -G --output - --data-urlencode 'text=Some important terms you should know.' 'http://localhost:5002/api/tts' > out
$ ffprobe -show_streams out 2>&1 | grep duration
duration_ts=754944
duration=34.237823

the server logs an unexpectedly high runtime.

[INFO] Synthesizing (37 char(s))...
[INFO] initializing backend espeak-1.48.03
 > Run-time: 9.952790260314941
 > Real-time factor: 0.2906955861025097
 > Time per step: 1.3183479293013637e-05

However an old version of the container I happened to have (483c72abc233), ~5 months old, it works as expected.

curl --silent -G --output - --data-urlencode 'text=Some important terms you should know.' 'http://localhost:5004/api/tts' > out
$ ffprobe -show_streams out 2>&1 | grep duration
duration_ts=49920
duration=2.263946

Any ideas what could be causing this? Removing the . from the end of the sentence seems to cause it work properly. Adding a . to the end likewise returns a short time.

[hexylena]

honestly no, it was so easy to add support for this as a backend.

An AWS polly compatible API would’ve made it easier, but, after 10 minutes of work to add a --backend [aws|mozilla] flag, it wasn’t necessary, so, I’m pretty sure it would not be worth the implementation effort.

[synesthesiam]

I’m honored to be able to contribute to your project 😃

Is there anything I could add to the container to help more?