---
license: mit
language:
- en
pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
tags:
- audiocraft
- audiogen
- styletts2
- audio
- synthesis
- shift
- audeering
- dkounadis
---


# Text to Affective Speech with SoundScape Synthesis

Affective TTS System for [SHIFT Horizon](https://shift-europe.eu/). Synthesizes affective speech from plain text or subtitles (.srt) & overlays it to videos.
  - Has 134 build-in voices available, tuned for [StyleTTS2](https://github.com/yl4579/StyleTTS2). Has optional support for  [foreign langauges](https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3-voices) via [mimic3](https://huggingface.co/mukowaty/mimic3-voices/tree/main/voices).

### Available Voices

<a href="https://audeering.github.io/shift/">Listen to available voices!</a>

## Flask API

Install

```
virtualenv --python=python3 ~/.envs/.my_env
source ~/.envs/.my_env/bin/activate
cd shift/
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Start Flask

```
CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER=PCI_BUS_ID HF_HOME=./hf_home CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=2 python api.py
```

## Inference

The following need `api.py` to be running, e.g. `.. on computeXX`. 

**Text 2 Speech**

```python
# Basic TTS - See Available Voices
python tts.py --text sample.txt --voice "en_US/m-ailabs_low#mary_ann" --affective

# voice cloning
python tts.py --text sample.txt --native assets/native_voice.wav
```

**Image 2 Video**

```python
# Make video narrating an image - All above TTS args apply also here!
python tts.py --text sample.txt --image assets/image_from_T31.jpg
```

**Video 2 Video**

```python
# Video Dubbing - from time-stamped subtitles (.srt)
python tts.py --text assets/head_of_fortuna_en.srt --video assets/head_of_fortuna.mp4

# Video narration - from text description (.txt)
python tts.py --text assets/head_of_fortuna_GPT.txt --video assets/head_of_fortuna.mp4
```

## Examples

Native voice video

[![Native voice ANBPR video](assets/native_video_thumb.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmo2UbKYAqc)

##

Same video where Native voice is replaced with English TTS voice with similar emotion


[![Same video w. Native voice replaced with English TTS](assets/tts_video_thumb.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geI1Vqn4QpY)


## Video Dubbing

[![Review demo SHIFT](assets/review_demo_thumb.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpt7rOBENcQ)

Generate dubbed video:


```python
python tts.py --text assets/head_of_fortuna_en.srt --video assets/head_of_fortuna.mp4

```


## Joint Application of D3.1 & D3.2

[![Captions To Video](assets/caption_to_video_thumb.png)](https://youtu.be/wWC8DpOKVvQ)

<a href="https://youtu.be/wWC8DpOKVvQ" rel="Subtitles to Video">![Foo4](assets/caption_to_video_thumb.png)</a>


From an image with caption(s) create a video:

```python

python tts.py --text sample.txt --image assets/image_from_T31.jpg
```