OpenVoice/QA.md

# Common Questions and Answers

## General Comments

**OpenVoice is a technology, not a product.** Do not expect it to work perfectly on every case, as it takes a lot of engineering effort to translate a technology to a stable product. The targeted users of this technology are developers and researchers, not end users. End users need a perfect product. However, we are confident to say that OpenVoice is in tier-1 among the source-available voice cloning technologies. 

## Issues with Voice Quality

**Accent and Emotion of the Generated Voice is not Similar to the Reference Voice**

First of all, OpenVoice only clones the tone color of the reference speaker. It does NOT clone the accent or emotion. The accent and emotion is controlled by the base speaker TTS model, not cloned by the tone color converter (please refer to our [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.01479.pdf) for technical details). If the user wants to change the accent or emotion of the output, they need to have a base speaker model with that accent. OpenVoice provides sufficient flexibility for users to integrate their own base speaker model into the framework by simply replacing the current base speaker we provided.

**Bad Audio Quality of the Generated Speech** 

Please check the followings:
- Is your reference audio is clean enough without any background noise?
- Is your audio too short?
- Does your audio contain speech from more than one person?
- Does the reference audio contain long blank sections?
- Did you name the reference audio the same name you used before but forgot to delete the `processed` folder?

## Issues with Languages

**Support of Other Languages**

For multi-lingual and cross-lingual usage, please refer to [`demo_part2.ipynb`](https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice/blob/main/demo_part2.ipynb). OpenVoice supports any language as long as you have a base speaker in that language. The OpenVoice team already did the most difficult part (tone color converter training) for you. Base speaker TTS model is relatively easy to train, and multiple existing open-source repositories support it. If you don't want to train by yourself, simply use the OpenAI TTS model as the base speaker.
update readme and added new gradio 2024-01-05 03:42:55 +00:00			`# Common Questions and Answers`

Update QA.md 2024-01-07 20:48:04 +00:00			`## General Comments`

Update QA.md 2024-01-07 20:48:29 +00:00			`OpenVoice is a technology, not a product. Do not expect it to work perfectly on every case, as it takes a lot of engineering effort to translate a technology to a stable product. The targeted users of this technology are developers and researchers, not end users. End users need a perfect product. However, we are confident to say that OpenVoice is in tier-1 among the source-available voice cloning technologies.`
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			`## Issues with Voice Quality`

Update QA.md 2024-01-07 20:48:04 +00:00			`Accent and Emotion of the Generated Voice is not Similar to the Reference Voice`
update readme and added new gradio 2024-01-05 03:42:55 +00:00
Update QA.md 2024-01-07 20:48:04 +00:00			First of all, OpenVoice only clones the tone color of the reference speaker. It does NOT clone the accent or emotion. The accent and emotion is controlled by the base speaker TTS model, not cloned by the tone color converter (please refer to our [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.01479.pdf) for technical details). If the user wants to change the accent or emotion of the output, they need to have a base speaker model with that accent. OpenVoice provides sufficient flexibility for users to integrate their own base speaker model into the framework by simply replacing the current base speaker we provided.
update readme and added new gradio 2024-01-05 03:42:55 +00:00
			`Bad Audio Quality of the Generated Speech`

			`Please check the followings:`
			`- Is your reference audio is clean enough without any background noise?`
			`- Is your audio too short?`
			`- Does your audio contain speech from more than one person?`
			`- Does the reference audio contain long blank sections?`
			- Did you name the reference audio the same name you used before but forgot to delete the `processed` folder?

			`## Issues with Languages`

			`Support of Other Languages`

Update QA.md 2024-01-07 20:48:04 +00:00			For multi-lingual and cross-lingual usage, please refer to [`demo_part2.ipynb`](https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice/blob/main/demo_part2.ipynb). OpenVoice supports any language as long as you have a base speaker in that language. The OpenVoice team already did the most difficult part (tone color converter training) for you. Base speaker TTS model is relatively easy to train, and multiple existing open-source repositories support it. If you don't want to train by yourself, simply use the OpenAI TTS model as the base speaker.