M1 Mac piper-phonemize issues + arm64 binary fails to run

[bephrem1]

Creating this issue to pull together the issues that Mac users are facing getting things up & running locally. I am on an M1 Macbook, 2020, running Sonoma 14.0 (8GB RAM).

1) piper-phenomize dependency issue

Running pip install piper-tts yields the following error:

Collecting piper-tts
  Using cached piper_tts-1.2.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (776 bytes)
INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of piper-tts to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
  Using cached piper_tts-1.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (776 bytes)
ERROR: Cannot install piper-tts==1.1.0 and piper-tts==1.2.0 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

The conflict is caused by:
    piper-tts 1.2.0 depends on piper-phonemize~=1.1.0
    piper-tts 1.1.0 depends on piper-phonemize~=1.0.0

To fix this you could try to:
1. loosen the range of package versions you've specified
2. remove package versions to allow pip attempt to solve the dependency conflict

ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/topics/dependency-resolution/#dealing-with-dependency-conflicts

following up with specific package versions with pip install piper-phonemize==1.1.0 piper-tts==1.2.0 yields

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement piper-phonemize==1.1.0 (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for piper-phonemize==1.1.0

running pip install piper-phonemize yields the same error as above.

This is odd because the package shows up on PyPi (piper-phonemize on PyPi). (not sure why it says (from versions: none), wondering where that data is pulled from.

This leads to the piper-tts being (currently) uninstallable for Mac users.

2) arm64 binary fails to run

Running the arm64 binary (downloaded from repo homepage) result in the error:

zsh: exec format error: /Users/bephrem/Documents/onsite.dev/code/dialog-service/tts/piper/piper

running file {piper_executable_path} yields

{piper_executable_path}: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked,
interpreter /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1, BuildID[sha1]=3686a5e80b65afe31f6526f01faa309360429b10,
for GNU/Linux 3.7.0, not stripped, too many notes (256)

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So currently it seems that there is no straight-forward way to run the library on a Macbook (w/o use of Docker, etc, which I might explore next).

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Related Issues:

piper
#27 (issue running arm64 binary)
#156 (piper-phonemize dependency issue)
#193 (piper-phonemize dependency issue)
#217 (piper-phonemize dependency issue)
#357 (issue running arm64 binary)
#384 (piper-phonemize dependency issue)
#404 (~ other ~)

piper-phenomize
rhasspy/piper-phonemize#14 (piper-phenomize pip package missing)

Related PRs:

rhasspy/piper-phonemize#11
rhasspy/piper-phonemize#13

Related Videos:

▶︎▶︎ Context on Piper TTS Python Package: https://youtu.be/MT9wJ1k3xBw?si=kC51MB4yVZuYy2cO&t=1206 (timestamped)

[jmtatsch]

I can confirm issue number 1 which led me building from source which worked well with the Cmakelist pull request currently open.

[ElYaiko]

Having same issues

[OlliePugh]

Also experiencing this, but unfortunately don't have the python / C knowledge to help resolve it :/

[KoStard]

Here is the mentioned pull request, it's still open: Fixed build issues on MacOS caused by unset rpath by TheLouisHong · Pull Request #412 · rhasspy/piper.

This issue makes it harder for the M1/2 mac users to install the library.

[vodiylik]

@bephrem1 Try install piper-phonemize-cross package with

pip install piper-phonemize-cross

command

[BirgitPohl]

pip install piper-phonemize-cross

I tried it, then ran

pip install piper-tts  

Didn't work for me. Mac with M2.

[vodiylik]

Didn't work for me. Mac with M2.

can you provide some logs?

[BirgitPohl]

Sure, but the message is not new.

 pip install piper-phonemize-cross

Collecting piper-phonemize-cross
  Downloading piper_phonemize_cross-1.2.1-cp312-cp312-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl.metadata (325 bytes)
Downloading piper_phonemize_cross-1.2.1-cp312-cp312-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (15.1 MB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 15.1/15.1 MB 7.3 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: piper-phonemize-cross
Successfully installed piper-phonemize-cross-1.2.1

pip install piper-tts

Collecting piper-tts
  Using cached piper_tts-1.2.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (776 bytes)
INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of piper-tts to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
  Using cached piper_tts-1.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (776 bytes)
ERROR: Cannot install piper-tts==1.1.0 and piper-tts==1.2.0 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

The conflict is caused by:
    piper-tts 1.2.0 depends on piper-phonemize~=1.1.0
    piper-tts 1.1.0 depends on piper-phonemize~=1.0.0

To fix this you could try to:
1. loosen the range of package versions you've specified
2. remove package versions to allow pip attempt to solve the dependency conflict

ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/topics/dependency-resolution/#dealing-with-dependency-conflicts

[vodiylik]

@BirgitPohl try install with this option

pip install piper-tts --no-deps

[Fledermaus-20]

@BirgitPohl try install with this option

pip install piper-tts --no-deps

This worked for me. Thanks!

[niummxvy]

@bephrem1* Try install piper-phonemize-cross package with

pip install piper-phonemize-cross

command

This works for me!