[Feature request]

[cargilcm]

🚀 Feature Description

requesting multi-backend support, which would benefit all users who cannot use soxr.

Undesired Solution

Switch to a TTS library that handles the resampling on some cloud hosted server such as edgetts or not use a TTS program altogether

Additional context

Building coqui-tts fails on Termux (Android mobile) because soxr dependency cannot be satisfied due to compatibility with the Python abi and gives PyExc_ValueError

python3.11 -m pip install TTS gives the same errors from numpy yet I'm hopeful that when TTS builds using a later version of Python the system package python-numpy will allow TTS to compile but now it tries building numpy from source which fails on Termux.

Thank you

[eginhard]

I'd say Coqui TTS isn't really designed to run on Android and I'd imagine there's issues with other packages as well. Best would be to export models to a cross-platform standard like onnx and run them with a dedicated inference provider. E.g. sherpa-onnx can run Coqui Vits models on Android: https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/index.html

[cargilcm]

Right-your assessment is correct about other issues in that environment with say numpy / scipy for eg I would like to explore exporting some of the models from coqui to onnx but I was able to get it running with node on Termux -THANK YOU FOR ADVICE! here's the code I used for that: https://github.com/cargilcm/try_git/blob/master/export_arabic_wav_tts.js