wfloat-tts

wfloat-tts is a lightweight multi-speaker English VITS text-to-speech model with speaker, emotion, and intensity control. Includes samples.

On-Device packages

This Hugging Face repo contains the model files. Wfloat also ships packages that distribute and run wfloat-tts locally on the user's device:

• Web for running locally in the browser, including mobile browsers
• React Native for running locally in iOS and Android apps
• Python for running in Python environments

Missing the platform or framework you need? Please request it!

Sample Outputs

mad_scientist_woman surprise

• Audio: samples/08_mad_scientist_woman_surprise_080.wav
• Input text: "No, no, that's not possible. The formula should have crystallized, but it adapted instead. Do you realize what that means for the rest of my work?"
• sid: 7
• emotion: surprise
• intensity: 0.8

fun_hero_woman joy

• Audio: samples/04_fun_hero_woman_joy_070.wav
• Input text: "Come on, keep up! The crowd is cheering."
• sid: 3
• emotion: joy
• intensity: 0.7

strong_hero_man anger

• Audio: samples/05_strong_hero_man_anger_080.wav
• Input text: "Enough. You had your warning, and you kept pushing innocent people around. Take one more step, and I end this."
• sid: 4
• emotion: anger
• intensity: 0.8

Find more examples in the samples folder.

Inputs

The intended inference inputs are:

• text: the utterance to synthesize
• sid: numeric speaker id
• emotion: emotion label
• intensity: value from 0.0 to 1.0

You do not need to pass raw control symbols. The Python helper converts emotion and intensity into the control tokens the model was trained on.

Install

For running the model from Hugging Face. Official Python package: wfloat-python.

pip install -e .
pip install "piper-phonemize==1.3.0" -f https://k2-fsa.github.io/icefall/piper_phonemize

Runtime dependencies:

• torch
• numpy
• safetensors
• piper-phonemize

piper-phonemize is installed separately because the current recommended wheels are hosted here:

• https://k2-fsa.github.io/icefall/piper_phonemize

Python Example

from wfloat_tts import load_generator, write_wave

generator = load_generator(
    checkpoint_path="model.safetensors",
    config_path="config.json",
)

audio = generator.generate(
    text="Hey there, how are you today?",
    sid=11,
    emotion="neutral",
    intensity=0.5,
)

write_wave("out.wav", audio.samples, audio.sample_rate)

How It Is Conditioned

This model was trained to condition on:

• speaker id
• one emotion control token
• one intensity control token

The reference inference path processes a full utterance, appends one emotion token and one intensity token for the whole utterance, and runs synthesis over that full sequence.

Speaker IDs

Use numeric sid values:

Speaker	SID
skilled_hero_man	0
skilled_hero_woman	1
fun_hero_man	2
fun_hero_woman	3
strong_hero_man	4
strong_hero_woman	5
mad_scientist_man	6
mad_scientist_woman	7
clever_villain_man	8
clever_villain_woman	9
narrator_man	10
narrator_woman	11
wise_elder_man	12
wise_elder_woman	13
outgoing_anime_man	14
outgoing_anime_woman	15
scary_villain_man	16
scary_villain_woman	17
news_reporter_man	18
news_reporter_woman	19

Emotions

Supported emotion labels:

• neutral
• joy
• sadness
• anger
• fear
• surprise
• dismissive
• confusion

intensity is clamped to the range [0.0, 1.0] and mapped to one of ten discrete intensity levels.

Notes

• model.safetensors is the main inference artifact in this repo.
• config.json includes the token mapping needed by the processor.
• The current release uses a multi-speaker model with 20 speakers.
• Training code: https://github.com/wfloat/piper
• For the checkpoint needed to resume training, message mitch@wfloat.com.