bark.cpp? New TTS model released

[r3nor]

Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model created by Suno. Bark can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio – including music, background noise and simple sound effects. The model can also produce nonverbal communications like laughing, sighing and crying. They are providing access to pretrained model checkpoints ready for inference.

Repo: https://github.com/suno-ai/bark
Examples: https://suno-ai.notion.site/Bark-Examples-5edae8b02a604b54a42244ba45ebc2e2

It would be awesome to have a CPP version of Bark :)

[ggerganov]

Looks like a great TTS model to implement with ggml.
After we finish with the quantization improvements, I think we can take a detailed look and try to support it

[r3nor]

That would be great!

[ehartford]

Yes Please I will be very happy to use this.

[qnixsynapse]

um. Any updates?

[monatis]

@PABannier has an ongoing effort at https://github.com/PABannier/bark.cpp

[Green-Sky]

gonna link this for discoverability
ggml-org/ggml#59

[mirek190]

I just tested it ... IS INSAME GOOD... just wow. Can you imagine next iterations ...