NVIDIA / NVIDIA/NeMo-Speech.cpp

Magpie TTS 2602 and 2607 for Japanese language inserts hallucinated sounds on punctuation symbols (periods).

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Description

There are odd sounds inserted where there should be pauses representing CJK periods. It happens for most, but not all periods. The hallucinated sounds to my ear seem to be either mangled Japanese sounds similar to the sounds nearby or seemingly random English-like sounds.

Few things I noticed:

  • CJK commas don't cause hallucinations.
  • Replacing CJK period with Western period didn't help.
  • Final period doesn't cause an issue.
  • If you put the period at the beginning of the text, there's an issue.

For reference:
The builds in the releases do not support tokenisation for Japanese language for Magpie TTS. So I built it from source with Japanese support (in my case Windows with CPU backend).

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Research direction

Start by reproducing Japanese Magpie TTS from a source build with Japanese tokenisation enabled, using CJK periods in positions described in the report and comparing commas, Western periods, and final periods. No source files or tests are named; done means punctuation produces pauses without hallucinated sounds across the reported cases.

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Tech stack
cpp
Domain
audio-video-rtc
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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