downloading voices became harder

[denizsincar29]

Hello. I tried to download voices for piper nvda but failed. there are now no tar archives in the download page, but rather onnx and json files in the huggingface website that the voice samples redirect to. It is not hard to me, but can be hard to people who cannot copy that files into nvda folder

[mush42]

Hi @denizsincar29

I understand your concern, but we can do nothing about this unless we host the voices ourselves.

If we have the means to host those voices in our own server, then we can collect official and community trained voices, and make downloading and installing them much easier via an integrated voice gallery in the add-on itself.

Best
Musharraf

[vortex1024]

@mush42 , I can provide hosting if you are interested.

[zersiax]

@denizsincar29 what is the procedure now? do you need the .json and .onnx files, and where are they pasted?

[vortex1024]

the addon now has a voice manager which handles downloading and installing automatically, but you are going to have to copy the files from the code, as a new release has not been made.