mimic3 voices fail to download

[garrett]

I had some mimic3 voices previously downloaded in Speech Note before. However, on a fresh installation, I tried downloading a few text to speech voices and noticed that mimic3 voices are now failing to download. I guess the URLs changed?

For example, the UK apope voices:

Trying to download, I get this:

"Error: Couldn't download the model file."

If we look at the config.json (as an example), the latest version is at:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MycroftAI/mimic3-voices/master/voices/en_UK/apope_low/config.json

(Non-raw, GitHub UI version is at https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3-voices/blob/master/voices/en_UK/apope_low/config.json)

So, assuming you'd want the same commit (although it probably wouldn't hurt to bump it up to a new version), the URLs should change. Here's the working URL for the JSON (as an example):

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MycroftAI/mimic3-voices/b239a9084e21fbaa7ac78ea6e31f5de1c31c8f42/voices/en_UK/apope_low/config.json

The fix looks like it would be to change the hostname from github.com to raw.githubusercontent.com and to also remove raw/ from the URL (as it's included in the hostname).

I think the original URLs might still work in a browser, but that does redirects and I'm not sure if redirects are handled in the app.

[garrett]

Note: This may also affect more than just mimic3 voices, if other voices are downloaded from GitHub.

[mkiol]

Many thanks for reporting this.

The problem seems to be related only to big in size *.onnx files. It is not possible to download them. Even git clone on mimic3 repository doesn't work. I'm receiving the following error which actually explains everything:

This repository is over its data quota. Account responsible for LFS bandwidth should purchase more data packs to restore access.

The problem is only with mimic3.

[mkiol]

I've created this to report the problem.

[mkiol]

I've re-uploaded all mimic3 models to my own repository on hugging face: https://huggingface.co/mukowaty/mimic3-voices

Fix: 8442c91

If you want to fix this without waiting for the next release, you can edit ~/.var/app/net.mkiol.SpeechNote/data/net.mkiol/dsnote/models.json file and update urls manually by replacing all occurrences of:

https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3-voices/raw/b239a9084e21fbaa7ac78ea6e31f5de1c31c8f42

to

https://huggingface.co/mukowaty/mimic3-voices/resolve/2b85a29b20717fdb3da37c96c9058f1bf2dd476f

[mkiol]

New version 4.5.0 is out. The fix is included.