Model config does not exist error

[liambanus]

When I download a model and it's config there are no instructions on where they should be placed and putting them in the root folder gives the following error:

piper$ echo 'Welcome to the world of speech synthesis!' | ./piper --model en_US-lessac-medium.onnx --output_file welcome.wav
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
what(): Model config doesn't exist
Aborted (core dumped)

Have verified the file is present and tried other models/configs but same result. Where should the config json be placed?

Thanks!

[redteampanda-ng]

the json file needs to have the same name as the .onnx file, but they are downloaded with a different name. So you should have:

en_US-lessac-medium.onnx
and
en_US-lessac-medium.onnx.json

[omeiirr]

Thanks! @redteampanda-ng
Was having the same issue for a while now.

It might be helpful to add this to the README

[redteampanda-ng]

I added a pull request #632