How to install on macOS with M1

[system1system2]

I struggled to install TTS on my MBP with M1 Pro as it's not officially supported. After much searching, thanks to previously published guidance from @jeffrafter, I managed to succeed. This is the procedure (assuming you have miniconda installed):

1. Go to the folder where you want to clone the TTS repo
2. conda create --name coqui python=3.9 < you can replace "coqui" with whichever name you like
3. conda activate coqui < before that "coqui" here is the same name you decided for at step 2
4. git clone https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS.git
5. brew install mecab < without this step, the "pip install" and "make install" commands will fail
6. brew install espeak < this is only necessary if you want to use the tts_models/en/vctk/vits voices
7. conda install numpy scipy scikit-learn Cython
8. pip install -e . < possibly unnecessary step as "make install" command should do the same. I didn't test without it.
9. make install

At this point, launch TTS or TTS-Server as indicated in the documentation.

[melMass]

Is there a way to avoid mecab all together? All my troubles with this project always are because of this library. I managed to make it work in the past, but after updating to Ventura it's broken again

[jeffrafter]

Look at #2052. In general mecab works on Ventura. But this comment #2052 (comment) suggests this library could be reconfigured to not rely on it. I tried that and it worked but all of the standard out of the box models assumed mecab at the time I tried it. So I could work without it but it meant I had to retrain everything which I was avoiding at the time.

[melMass]

Thanks, custom training is the goal so I will check out to omit it thanks for the precision!

[kitschpatrol]

Thank you! This worked for me on M1 / Ventura.

Just one note for others: Without specifying a python version when creating the conda environment, mine ended up with 3.11 which did not work. Manually specifying 3.9 at environment creation did the trick:

conda create --name coqui python=3.9

[system1system2]

Very good suggestion. I updated my original post to incorporate your recommendation. Thank you

[cellulosa]

For anyone else having this issue:

flake8 6.0.0 requires mccabe<0.8.0,>=0.7.0, but you have mccabe 0.6.1 which is incompatible.

I had to brew uninstall mecab and install that library with python3 -m pip install mccabe.

[munshaw]

I was trying to get Japanese TTS working on my Macbook Air M1 Sonoma, and ran into the same issues with mecab. The above solution wasn't working, but I found an alternative solution. It's not as fast, but I don't really need speed for simple TTS.

I created an emulated UTM VM for Debian 12 amd64, with 2GB of RAM. During the installer I didn't install any desktop, but did install the SSH server. After installing, I set the cpu to qemu64 + sse4.1 + sse4.2 + ssse3, deleted the display, and set up network to use Emulated VLAN and port forwarded TCP 22 to 22. I set up a paswordless ssh key to access the VM. Proceeded with installing TTS for Debian.

Then I created some shell scripts with ssh+scp in my path to generating TTS. I also ran fstrim, and compressed the disk image to save some space.

[tokamac]

3. conda activate coqui < before that "coqui" here is the same name you decided for at step 2

conda activate coqui
CondaError: Run 'conda init' before 'conda activate'

Off to a good start…

conda init
no change     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/condabin/conda
no change     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/bin/conda
no change     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/bin/conda-env
no change     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/bin/activate
no change     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/bin/deactivate
no change     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/etc/profile.d/conda.sh
no change     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/etc/fish/conf.d/conda.fish
no change     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/shell/condabin/Conda.psm1
no change     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/shell/condabin/conda-hook.ps1
no change     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/lib/python3.11/site-packages/xontrib/conda.xsh
no change     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/etc/profile.d/conda.csh
no change     /Users/user/.bash_profile
No action taken.

Then

conda activate coqui
CondaError: Run 'conda init' before 'conda activate'

What's wrong again right from the start!

[abdul-0]

@tokamac you must have a different shell, try conda init zsh for e.g

[Daniel3356]

Hey !
Is it fast on your machine ? I'm using a macbook pro M1 and I get 46 words per minutes.

[lukshan13]

Sorry for the necro. Despite following the steps, I'm still getting the same issue, "ERROR: Could not build wheels for TTS, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects"

I'm running M3 Pro on Sonoma 14.3. Would appreciate any help

[kitschpatrol]

Hey, I know "works on my machine" is never especially helpful, but I just went through the exact steps outline in the OP with the latest commit of TTS, and it's working fine for me on an M3 Max with Sonoma 14.4... so it's probably down to a difference in your machine's configuration?

Have you run brew doctor? Are the Xcode command line tools installed?

[michaelmj]

I got this working today with M2 Max on 14.4 without needing any outside dependencies with the following steps:

1. Clone TTS repo.
2. conda create --name TTS python=3.11
3. conda activate TTS
4. pip install -e .

At that point tts works at the command line.

[rpoelking]

I've followed the steps with both the first post and this one from michaelmj. At the point of running pip install -e . I get an error saying that ERROR: file://Users/myname/current/path/ does not appear to be a Python project: neigher 'setup.py' nor 'pyproject.toml' found. Am I missing a dependency or am I supposed to change to a different directory. Where do I find setup.py?

Nevermind. I followed this link (https://blog.graywind.org/posts/coqui-tts-mac/) and the make now works.

[3manu31]

I followed the steps but at the step: brew install mecab , I get: zsh: command not found: brew
(I am new to coding so I don't really get what's wrong)
Any help?

[rpoelking]

you need to install homebrew first. go to https://brew.sh/ for installation instructions. It's just a package manager for mac.

[3manu31]

I thought i had it already installed, but i didn't. Thanks. Now it gives me this Channels: - defaults Platform: osx-arm64 Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done Solving environment: failed
in response to conda install numpy scipy scikit-learn Cython .
Does this mean I need also Cython on my Mac?

[serendipity1137]

Let me know if this helps.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

# Install Conda
mkdir ~/coqui && cd ~/coqui # Or wherever you want to install Conda/Coqui
curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.sh -o miniconda3.sh
chmod +x ./miniconda3.sh
./miniconda3.sh

conda create --name coqui python=3.10 # Then hit y and enter to accept
conda activate coqui
git clone https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS.git
# Install requirements
brew install mecab espeak
pip install numpy==1.21.6
conda install scipy scikit-learn Cython
# Install Coqui-TTS
cd TTS
make install

[Mudasirhabib123]

Following solution works on my M2

$ python
Python 3.9.6 (default, Nov 10 2023, 13:38:27)
[Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.1.0.2.5)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import numpy as np
np.get_include()
'/Users/mudasirhabib/Documents/projects/verticalsols/tts/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/core/include'
quit()
export CFLAGS="-I /Users/mudasirhabib/Documents/projects/verticalsols/tts/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/core/include $CFLAGS"

And then
pip install git+https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS