Model reference · open weights
tts-hifigan-ljspeech is an open-weight audio or speech model from speechbrain. tts-hifigan-ljspeech (BF16) weighs 56 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the speechbrain/tts-hifigan-ljspeech model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | speechbrain |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022-05-28 |
| VRAM | 56 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | One stream | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
This repository provides all the necessary tools for using a HiFIGAN vocoder trained with LJSpeech.
The pre-trained model takes in input a spectrogram and produces a waveform in output. Typically, a vocoder is used after a TTS model that converts an input text into a spectrogram.
The sampling frequency is 22050 Hz.
NOTES
pip install speechbrain
Please notice that we encourage you to read our tutorials and learn more about SpeechBrain.
import torch
from speechbrain.inference.vocoders import HIFIGAN
hifi_gan = HIFIGAN.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/tts-hifigan-ljspeech", savedir="pretrained_models/tts-hifigan-ljspeech")
mel_specs = torch.rand(2, 80,298)
waveforms = hifi_gan.decode_batch(mel_specs)
import torchaudio
from speechbrain.inference.vocoders import HIFIGAN
from speechbrain.lobes.models.FastSpeech2 import mel_spectogram
# Load a pretrained HIFIGAN Vocoder
hifi_gan = HIFIGAN.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/tts-hifigan-ljspeech", savedir="pretrained_models/tts-hifigan-ljspeech")
# Load an audio file (an example file can be found in this repository)
# Ensure that the audio signal is sampled at 22050 Hz; refer to the provided link for a 16 kHz Vocoder.
signal, rate = torchaudio.load('speechbrain/tts-hifigan-ljspeech/example.wav')
# Compute the mel spectrogram.
# IMPORTANT: Use these specific parameters to match the Vocoder's training settings for optimal results.
spectrogram, _ = mel_spectogram(
audio=signal.squeeze(),
sample_rate=22050,
hop_length=256,
win_length=None,
n_mels=80,
n_fft=1024,
f_min=0.0,
f_max=8000.0,
power=1,
normalized=False,
min_max_energy_norm=True,
norm="slaney",
mel_scale="slaney",
compression=True
)
# Convert the spectrogram to waveform
waveforms = hifi_gan.decode_batch(spectrogram)
# Save the reconstructed audio as a waveform
torchaudio.save('waveform_reconstructed.wav', waveforms.squeeze(1), 22050)
# If everything is set up correctly, the original and reconstructed audio should be nearly indistinguishable.
# Keep in mind that this Vocoder is trained for a single speaker; for multi-speaker Vocoder options, refer to the provided links.
import torchaudio
from speechbrain.inference.TTS import Tacotron2
from speechbrain.inference.vocoders import HIFIGAN
# Intialize TTS (tacotron2) and Vocoder (HiFIGAN)
tacotron2 = Tacotron2.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/tts-tacotron2-ljspeech", savedir="pretrained_models/tts-tacotron2-ljspeech")
hifi_gan = HIFIGAN.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/tts-hifigan-ljspeech", savedir="pretrained_model/tts-hifigan-ljspeech")
# Running the TTS
mel_output, mel_length, alignment = tacotron2.encode_text("Mary had a little lamb")
# Running Vocoder (spectrogram-to-waveform)
waveforms = hifi_gan.decode_batch(mel_output)
# Save the waverform
torchaudio.save('example_TTS.wav',waveforms.squeeze(1), 22050)
To perform inference on the GPU, add run_opts={"device":"cuda"} when calling the from_hparams method.
The model was trained with SpeechBrain. To train it from scratch follow these steps:
git clone https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/
cd speechbrain
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
cd recipes/LJSpeech/TTS/vocoder/hifi_gan/
python train.py hparams/train.yaml --data_folder /path/to/LJspeech
You can find our training results (models, logs, etc) here.
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
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