Mocking Bird

MockingBird is an open-source voice cloning and real-time speech generation toolkit that lets you clone a speaker’s voice from a short audio sample (reportedly as little as 5 seconds) and then synthesize arbitrary speech in that voice. It builds on deep-learning based TTS / voice-cloning technology (in the lineage of projects such as Real-Time-Voice-Cloning), but extends it with support for Mandarin Chinese and multiple Chinese speech datasets — broadening its applicability beyond English. The codebase is implemented in Python (with PyTorch) and includes modules for encoder, synthesizer, vocoder, preprocessing, and inference, as well as demo scripts and a web-server interface for easier experimentation or deployment. MockingBird supports both using pretrained models and training your own synthesizer (with custom datasets), giving flexibility for voice-cloning or custom-voice synthesis depending on your needs.