[Bug] pip install tts fails

[pombears]

pip install tts failing on Windows

On Windows, running "pip install tts" fails with below errors in output:

Building wheels for collected packages: tts
Building wheel for tts (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for tts (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [1203 lines of output]

....

building 'TTS.tts.utils.monotonic_align.core' extension
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for tts
Failed to build tts
ERROR: Could not build wheels for tts, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Full pip install output:
full-pip-output.txt

I already have the following installed on my machine, so looks like the above error may be misleading?
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) - 14.31.31103
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x86) - 14.30.30704

Attempts made to resolve issue:

• Downloaded and installed the Microsoft C++ Build Tools
• Using Visual Studio Installer (gets installed from previous step), installed Visual Studio Community 2022
• In Visual Studio Installer, added Workload "Desktop Development with C++"

I'm now getting error:

error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for tts
Building wheel for pyworld (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [12 lines of output]
C:\Users\anthony\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py:771: UserWarning: Usage of dash-separated 'description-file' will not be supported in future versions. Please use the underscore name 'description_file' instead
warnings.warn(
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-310
creating build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-310\pyworld
copying pyworld_init_.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-310\pyworld
running build_ext
building 'pyworld.pyworld' extension
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyworld
Running setup.py clean for pyworld
Failed to build tts pyworld
ERROR: Could not build wheels for tts, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

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To Reproduce

Open command prompt
Type and enter: pip install tts

Expected behavior

TTS should install without error

Logs

No response

Environment

Windows 10 (Version 21H2 - OS Build 19044.2130)
Python 3.10.6
PIP version 22.2.2

Additional context

No response

[thorstenMueller]

I had some struggles with pyworld dependency on Windows too. But i found a solution and show how to get it up and running here:
https://youtu.be/zRaDe08cUIk?t=743

Maybe this helps you.

[pombears]

Hi Thorsten

Thanks very much for this. From googling around I wonder if it's a case of needing to run it in a virtual environment running Python 3.8 rather than my default 3.10. I will give that link a try and see how I go.

[Vuizur]

I had problems installing it on Windows as well, what I did at the end was using poetry to create a virtual environment with python 3.9, because python 3.10 doesn't seem to work, and then installing the package from git (where pyworld is not a necessary dependency anymore).

[pombears]

Hi Vuizur. Thanks for this. I'm curious to know if you needed to do anything else beyond installing the git repository inside a 3.8 virtual environment to get it to work.

[Vuizur]

No, it worked fine after that (I used 3.9 though). 👍 If you should be stuck at any step, just ask.

[pombears]

Thanks Vuizur. I've just created a virtual environment running Python v3.9 but no joy currently.

1. Created a container folder "C:\Projects"
2. Downloaded the git repository into this folder using below (successful):
   git clone https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS.git
3. In VS Code, I opened the TTS subfolder created by the download
4. In a terminal window in VS Code, ran the following to configure the TTS folder as my virtual environment running Python v3.9 specifically:
   & "C:\Program Files\Python39\python.exe" -m venv . (successful)
5. With current working directory still at the TTS folder, I then ran the following to install the contents of the git repository:
   \Scripts\pip install -e .[all,dev,notebooks]

Currently getting below errors. I've also attached full pip install output.
pip_install_output.txt

Building wheels for collected packages: TTS
Building editable for TTS (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building editable for TTS (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [87 lines of output]
:34: DeprecationWarning: distutils Version classes are deprecated. Use packaging.version instead.

and further down.....

File "C:\Users\anthony\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-tnknhu1y\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_distutils_msvccompiler.py", line 423, in compile
raise CompileError(msg)
distutils.errors.CompileError: command 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2
error: Support for editable installs via PEP 660 was recently introduced
in setuptools. If you are seeing this error, please report to:

  https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues
 
  Meanwhile you can try the legacy behavior by setting an
  environment variable and trying to install again:
 
  SETUPTOOLS_ENABLE_FEATURES="legacy-editable"
  [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building editable for TTS
Failed to build TTS
ERROR: Could not build wheels for TTS, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
WARNING: You are using pip version 22.0.4; however, version 22.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'C:\Projects\TTS\Scripts\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

[Vuizur]

What I recommend is installing Poetry, then executing:

poetry new tts-test
cd tts-test

Then download Python 3.9 (or 3.8) and set poetry's python version to the older version like explained here.
Then run

poetry add git+https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

Then run poetry shell and synthesize speech like here, so for example by running tts-server to get the interactive gui (you only need to open the link in the console in the browser.)

(I wrote this out of memory, so I hope it works).

[pombears]

Thanks Vuizur. I will give it a try. Prior to running "poetry new tts-test", how should I actually install Poetry on Windows.
There is a script at https://install.python-poetry.org/ which I can download, save as say poetry-installer.py and then run potentially run that using my existing Python v3.9 executable:
"C:\Program Files\Python39\python.exe" poetry-installer.py

Would that be the way to go, or is there another way I should be installing it?

P.S. I don't suppose it matters, but the specific version of Python v3.9 I installed in the existing virtual environment is v3.9.13 (the highest version of v.39 python.org is offering as an installable at the moment)

[Vuizur]

I think the best way is to run the Windoes powershell install command in powershell (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://install.python-poetry.org -UseBasicParsing).Content | py -

[pombears]

Okay I've installed poetry using the PowerShell command method, added poetry bin directory to PATH variable, tested running "poetry --version" does return the version number of poetry.
I then created my virtual environment in C:\Projects by running "poetry new tts-test" in this location.
That part was okay.
But when then going into the tts-test folder and then running "poetry env use 3.9" I get the following error:

c:\Projects\tts-test>poetry env use 3.9
'python3.9' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Command python3.9 -c "import sys; print(sys.executable)" errored with the following return code 1, and output:

(blank)

[Vuizur]

I think you need the absolute path, which you get with py -0p

[pombears]

Okay. This is what I get:

c:\Projects\tts-test>py -0p
Installed Pythons found by py Launcher for Windows
 -3.10-64       C:\Program Files\Python310\python.exe *
 -3.9-64        C:\Program Files\Python39\python.exe


c:\Projects\tts-test>poetry env use C:\Program Files\Python39\python.exe

Too many arguments to "env use" command, expected arguments "python"

[Vuizur]

Can you try it with "C:\Program Files\Python39\python.exe" with quote marks?

[pombears]

Good point! My bad!
Getting the below now. My main installed python version is v3.10 but need to make my tts-test use 3.9

c:\Projects\tts-test>poetry env use "C:\Program Files\Python39\python.exe"

The specified Python version (3.9.13) is not supported by the project (^3.10).
Please choose a compatible version or loosen the python constraint specified in the pyproject.toml file.

[Vuizur]

You need to edit the pyproject.toml to (change 3.10 to 3.9)

[pombears]

Thank you. Getting further now...

c:\Projects\tts-test>poetry env use "C:\Program Files\Python39\python.exe"
Creating virtualenv tts-test-mKFQEpZO-py3.9 in C:\Users\anthony\AppData\Local\pypoetry\Cache\virtualenvs
Using virtualenv: C:\Users\anthony\AppData\Local\pypoetry\Cache\virtualenvs\tts-test-mKFQEpZO-py3.9

c:\Projects\tts-test>poetry add git+https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

Updating dependencies
Resolving dependencies... (0.0s)

The current project's Python requirement (>=3.9,<4.0) is not compatible with some of the required packages Python requirement:
  - tts requires Python >=3.7.0, <3.11, so it will not be satisfied for Python >=3.11,<4.0

Because tts-test depends on tts (0.8.0) @ git+https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS@HEAD which requires Python >=3.7.0, <3.11, version solving failed.

  • Check your dependencies Python requirement: The Python requirement can be specified via the `python` or `markers` properties

    For tts, a possible solution would be to set the `python` property to ">=3.9,<3.11"

    https://python-poetry.org/docs/dependency-specification/#python-restricted-dependencies,
    https://python-poetry.org/docs/dependency-specification/#using-environment-markers

[pombears]

Using ">=3.9,<3.11" now and it's download packages

[pombears]

The packages seemed to install okay, but at the end I'm getting the same kind of error I got when using venv and VS Code:

    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe" /c /nologo /O2 /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -IC:\Users\anthony\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hh4savuo\overlay\Lib\site-packages\numpy\core\include -IC:\Users\anthony\AppData\Local\pypoetry\Cache\virtualenvs\tts-test-mKFQEpZO-py3.9\include "-IC:\Program Files\Python39\include" "-IC:\Program Files\Python39\Include" "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\include" "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\VS\include" /TcTTS/tts/utils/monotonic_align/core.c /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-cpython-39\Release\TTS/tts/utils/monotonic_align/core.obj    core.c
    C:\Program Files\Python39\include\pyconfig.h(59): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'io.h': No such file or directory
    error: command 'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\Community\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.33.31629\\bin\\HostX86\\x64\\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2
    [end of output]

    note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
    ERROR: Failed building wheel for TTS
  Failed to build TTS
  ERROR: Could not build wheels for TTS, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects


  at ~\AppData\Roaming\pypoetry\venv\lib\site-packages\poetry\utils\env.py:1476 in _run
      1472│                 output = subprocess.check_output(
      1473│                     command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=env, **kwargs
      1474│                 )
      1475│         except CalledProcessError as e:
    → 1476│             raise EnvCommandError(e, input=input_)
      1477│
      1478│         return decode(output)
      1479│
      1480│     def execute(self, bin: str, *args: str, **kwargs: Any) -> int:

The following error occurred when trying to handle this error:


  PoetryException

  Failed to install C:/Users/anthony/AppData/Local/pypoetry/Cache/virtualenvs/tts-test-mKFQEpZO-py3.9/src/TTS

  at ~\AppData\Roaming\pypoetry\venv\lib\site-packages\poetry\utils\pip.py:51 in pip_install
       47│
       48│     try:
       49│         return environment.run_pip(*args)
       50│     except EnvCommandError as e:
    →  51│         raise PoetryException(f"Failed to install {path.as_posix()}") from e
       52│

[pombears]

Further up the following sticks out:

• Installing unidic-lite (1.0.8)
 • Installing tts (0.8.0 ef82adc): Failed   <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

 CalledProcessError

[Vuizur]

Have you tried the solution under https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40018405/cannot-open-include-file-io-h-no-such-file-or-directory ?

[pombears]

No not yet. I will definitely give that a go. Thanks very much for the help Vuizur. Almost here

[Grandmother001]

Did you have any luck getting this to work?

[erogol]

Thanks for the issue but w e don't support win and currently we don't intend to. So I move this to the discussions.

[vivisol]

I have fixed the problem that when trying pip install TTS ocurred error Failed to build tts ERROR: Could not build wheels for tts, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects.

Step 1:

download TTS package from pypi.org, unzip the file TTS-0.11.1.tar.gz

Step 2:

run pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 3:

run python setup.py install ，
then it probably will occur error building 'TTS.tts.utils.monotonic_align.core' extension error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/.
Don't worry, just do it as it suggests, download Microsoft C++ build tools on website https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/.

Step 4:

After installing the Microsoft C++ build tools , run python setup.py install, then it succeed.

Step 5:

run pip list ,then you can see TTS has been successfully installed.

[eginhard]

@adiitea So I already wrote here two times that you should use our fork because this repo is abandoned and broken. Please follow the installation instructions there and if you still have problems open an issue there with more details. I'll stop replying here now.

[adiitea]

I used that also but still tts is not showing
Pip show tts is giving package not found.

[lexkoro]

Did you run "pip install coqui-tts"?

[adiitea]

Yesss

[adiitea]

Seee i want to install storyteller-core package and for that I need to install tts but it's not installing ....I'm developing a ai-story generator

[Ifromfridaynightfunk]

came from Microsoft Support team (thanks for them), And is there a way to use this, as i'm confused and don't know any shit about coding and all of that, especially on Windows 11, I also have an issue where i can't install and TTS Packages, If possible can you help me?

[tomsepe]

try installing Visual Studio Build Tools 2022 Microsoft C++ Build Tools and make sure you check the box for the "Desktop development with C++" Install option

[kaisch13]

doesn't work for python 3.12 since "trainer" is not updated on this python version yet:.(

[dvl-harish]

If anyone still facing the issue, you need to install Microsoft C++ build tools with Python 3.10. I have tested and it is working fine.

[eginhard]

Our fork now provides prebuilt wheels for Windows, so the C++ Build Tools shouldn't be needed anymore. You can install it with pip install coqui-tts (Python 3.12 is supported as well there)

[adiitea]

Still getting the error

[adiitea]

I'm still facing this error pip install -r requirements.txt is now also giving error relate to cython "getting requirements to build wheel does not run successfully"

[eginhard]

As written above, you should use our fork (available via pip install coqui-tts), which also works fine on Windows. This repo is abandoned and doesn't work with recent Python and dependency versions anymore.

[hazardland]

Solved installation after attempting to install it for 2 days : D

1. First you will need to find Microsoft Build Tools in case you are wondering what is minimal installation of its components for installing TTS here you go:

2. After which this two commands work with:

Python 3.10.11
Cython 0.29.37

pip install Cython==0.29.37
pip install TTS --no-build-isolation

But consider for the moment writing this comment the secret is in Cython==0.29.37, take a close look it is 37, not lower version, lower versions are failing, also higher version after 0.29.37 is is 3.x.x which is also failing