bark

Bark

In this directory, you will find examples on how you could use IPEX-LLM optimize_model API to accelerate Bark models. For illustration purposes, we utilize the suno/bark as reference Bark models.

Requirements

To run these examples with IPEX-LLM, we have some recommended requirements for your machine, please refer to here for more information.

Example: Synthesize speech with the given input text

In the example synthesize_speech.py, we show a basic use case for Bark model to synthesize speech based on the given text, with IPEX-LLM INT4 optimizations.

1. Install

We suggest using conda to manage the Python environment. For more information about conda installation, please refer to here.

After installing conda, create a Python environment for IPEX-LLM:

On Linux:

conda create -n llm python=3.11 # recommend to use Python 3.11
conda activate llm

# install the latest ipex-llm nightly build with 'all' option
pip install --pre --upgrade ipex-llm[all] --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
pip install TTS scipy

On Windows:

conda create -n llm python=3.11
conda activate llm

pip install --pre --upgrade ipex-llm[all]
pip install TTS scipy

2. Download Bark model

Before running the example, you need to download Bark model to local folder:

from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download

model_path = snapshot_download(repo_id='suno/bark',
                               local_dir='bark/') # you can change `local_dir` parameter to specify any local folder

Please refer to here for more information about snapshot_download.

3. Run

After setting up the Python environment and downloading Bark model, you could run the example by following steps.

3.1 Client

On client Windows machines, it is recommended to run directly with full utilization of all cores:

# make sure `--model-path` corresponds to the local folder of downloaded model
python ./synthesize_speech.py --model-path 'bark/' --text "This is an example text for synthesize speech."

More information about arguments can be found in Arguments Info section.

3.2 Server

For optimal performance on server, it is recommended to set several environment variables (refer to here for more information), and run the example with all the physical cores of a single socket.

E.g. on Linux,

# set IPEX-LLM env variables
source ipex-llm-init

# e.g. for a server with 48 cores per socket
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=48
# make sure `--model-path` corresponds to the local folder of downloaded model
numactl -C 0-47 -m 0 python ./synthesize_speech.py --model-path 'bark/' --text "This is an example text for synthesize speech."

More information about arguments can be found in Arguments Info section.

3.3 Arguments Info

In the example, several arguments can be passed to satisfy your requirements:

• --model-path MODEL_PATH: required, argument defining the local path to the Bark model checkpoint folder.
• --text TEXT: argument defining the text to synthesize speech. It is default to be "This is an example text for synthesize speech.".