What's Changed

• Trick to Upsampling to High sampling rates using VITS model by @Edresson in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1456
• Update Coqpit requirement by @Edresson in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1539
• Missing f prefix on f-strings fix by @code-review-doctor in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1532
• tiny improvement in data_path resolvement by @taras-sereda in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1567
• Fix VITS upsampling asserts by @Edresson in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1550
• Fix the bug in eSpeak wrapper for eSpeak version 1.48.15 by @Edresson in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1560
• 🐍 Python 3.10.x support and drop Python 3.6 support by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1565
• Update CI tests by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1572
• Build and publish CPU only Docker image by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1573
• Add an assert for the upsampling trick by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1538
• Add audio length sampler balancer by @Edresson in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1561
• Change the VITS upsampling interpolation trick to linear by @Edresson in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1564
• Capacitron by @a-froghyar in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/977
• Fixed use_cuda issue in compute_embeddings.py by @ribeiromiranda in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1587
• Training recipes for thorsten dataset by @noranraskin in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1020
• fix invalid json by @s3781009 in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1599
• Use fsspec and torch for embedding file IO by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1581
• Adding TTS Tutorials by @Aya-AlJafari in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1584
• Internal formatter by @WeberJulian in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1629
• Update training_a_model.md by @klotlabs in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1620
• Add synpaflex formatter by @WeberJulian in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1616
• added support for model_info in CLI by @p0p4k in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1623
• Add Thorsten VITS model by @WeberJulian in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1675
• Checkpoint bug fix by @manmay-nakhashi in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1641
• docs : Adding <model_type> in the arguments for CLI by @camillem in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1469
• Fix Publish CI by @WeberJulian in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1597
• Fix tokenizer for punc only by @WeberJulian in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1717
• Add durations as aux input for VITS by @WeberJulian in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1694
• feat: updated capacitron recipes and lr fix by @a-froghyar in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1718
• Implement VitsAudioConfig by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1556
• Fix aux tests by @WeberJulian in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1753
• Fix for FloorDiv Function Warning by @iprovalo in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1760
• Update download_vctk.sh by @mengting7tw in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1739
• Update decoder.py by @p0p4k in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1792
• Update requirements.txt for python 3.10 support by @p0p4k in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1791
• Update README.md by @yuripourre in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1776
• Fix & update WaveRNN vocoder model by @vanIvan in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1749
• Update requirements.txt; inflect==5.6 by @p0p4k in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1809
• Update README.md; download progress bar in CLI. by @p0p4k in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1797
• Update wavenet.py by @p0p4k in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1796
• Adjust default to be able to process longer sentences by @lkiesow in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1835
• Fix language flags generated by espeak-ng phonemizer by @Lokhozt in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1801
• fix get_random_embeddings --> get_random_embedding by @manmay-nakhashi in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1726
• Introduce numpy and torch transforms by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1705
• Implement bucketed weighted sampling for VITS by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1871
• capacitron_layers multi speaker bug fix by @manmay-nakhashi in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1664
• updates to dataset analysis notebooks by @jreus in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1853
• Fix BCE loss issue by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1872
• Remove deprecated files by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1873
• Handle when no batch sampler by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1882
• Fix tune wavegrad by @geth-network in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1844
• Add new DE Thorsten models by @erogol in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1898

New Contributors

• @code-review-doctor made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1532
• @taras-sereda made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1567
• @ribeiromiranda made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1587
• @s3781009 made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1599
• @Aya-AlJafari made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1584
• @klotlabs made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1620
• @p0p4k made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1623
• @manmay-nakhashi made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1641
• @camillem made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1469
• @iprovalo made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1760
• @mengting7tw made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1739
• @yuripourre made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1776
• @vanIvan made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1749
• @lkiesow made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1835
• @Lokhozt made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1801
• @jreus made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1853
• @geth-network made their first contribution in https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/pull/1844

Full Changelog: https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/compare/v0.6.2...v0.8.0