Installation

Notes on how to setup dependencies; In general, create a new env with conda:

conda env create --file=environments-cp311.yml

Python 3.11 is the only version that works with all dependencies at this point.

Some dependencies need manual setup:

Download openwakeword models

One time, in Python repl:

import openwakeword
openwakeword.utils.download_models()

Needs a CUDA capabale NVidia GPU to run fast whisper.

conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio pytorch-cuda=12.1 -c pytorch -c nvidia

Notes:

Get C++ build tools: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
- MSVC C++ 2022 build tools latest
- Windows 11 SDK
Get ninja: pip install ninja
Set MAX_JOBS=4 if less than 100Gb of RAM

Install tesseract with language data. (Windows: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki). If installed to non-default location adjust tessdata_dir in config.

external/fast_ssim requires the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable packages for Visual Studio 2013.

Install with your preferred engine, for example realtimetts[system,coqui]

Requires C++ redistributable