v0.27.0

What's Changed

Features

• Speaker caching for cloned voices by @eginhard in #438
  • For usage details see https://coqui-tts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cloning.html
  • ⚠️ The old caching mechanism of Bark and Tortoise has been removed, switch to the new one instead.
• Provide synthesize() method with a common interface for every TTS model by @eginhard in #453
  • ⚠️ Deprecate speaker_id argument of synthesize(), use speaker instead.
  • ⚠️ Deprecate config argument of synthesize(), it can safely be left out.
• Add OpenAI-compatible endpoint to the server by @teddybear082 in #421
  See https://coqui-tts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/server.html#openai-compatible-endpoint

Fixes

• Update coqui-tts-trainer to 0.3.0 to fix numerous training-related bugs by @eginhard in #423
  For the full list of fixes see https://github.com/idiap/coqui-ai-Trainer/releases/tag/v0.3.0
• fix(configs): add default padding character by @eginhard in #425
• Fix KeyError when speaker_id is empty string in TTS server by @mehulanshumali in #436
• Fix: Update xtts finetuning Colab to support Gradio 5 by @eulphean in #408
• Bring back compatibility with numpy1 by @MarwanMashra in #413
• fix: update XTTS/Tortoise GPT code for HF transformers 4.52+ by @eginhard in #414
• build: lower minimum pytorch version back to 2.1 by @eginhard in #432
• refactor(phonemizer): replace mecab-python3 with fugashi for japanese by @eginhard in #417
• docs: add Docker Compose config by @KishoOoOoOo in #411

New Contributors

• @KishoOoOoOo made their first contribution in #411
• @eulphean made their first contribution in #408
• @MarwanMashra made their first contribution in #413
• @teddybear082 made their first contribution in #421
• @mehulanshumali made their first contribution in #436

Full Changelog: v0.26.2...v0.27.0