ValueError: [!] Model file not found in the output path

[mehransalehi]

Hello
This is my first time to use coqui .
I installed it by following the documentation but when i run test command it gave me this output :

`
$ tts --text "Text for TTS" --out_path ./speech.wav

tts_models/en/ljspeech/tacotron2-DDC is already downloaded.
vocoder_models/en/ljspeech/hifigan_v2 is already downloaded.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/phoenix/.local/bin/tts", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/phoenix/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/TTS/bin/synthesize.py", line 298, in main
vocoder_path, vocoder_config_path, _ = manager.download_model(args.vocoder_name)
File "/home/phoenix/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/TTS/utils/manage.py", line 245, in download_model
output_model_path, output_config_path = self._find_files(output_path)
File "/home/phoenix/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/TTS/utils/manage.py", line 268, in _find_files
raise ValueError(" [!] Model file not found in the output path")
ValueError: [!] Model file not found in the output path
`

[mehransalehi]

Ok i solve it .
in output it mentioned that vendor is downloaded but it's not then i delete the content of
/home/user/.local/share/tts/
it download it again and problem solved.

[TaterTotX]

Hello, I also encountered the same problem. May I ask how did you solve it?

from TTS.api import TTS

model_name = TTS.list_models()[0]
tts = TTS(model_name)
wav = tts.tts("This is a test! This is also a test!!", speaker=tts.speakers[0], language=tts.languages[0])

raise ValueError(" [!] Model file not found in the output path")
ValueError: [!] Model file not found in the output path

[erogol]

Please do not triple post

[sangthebui]

Thank you for finding this out.

For other people who uses Mac, ~/Library/Application Support/tts is their path. I had to delete this path, not the /home/user/.local/share/tts/ path.

[mikee-gwu]

Thank you for the MacOS pointer, just what I needed. Its too bad the cli doesn't have some sort of --force_download or something to help with partial/failed downloaded models, but this helps fix. thank you!

[tonywhite11]

2 days, 3 nights and chat GPT4 and I still couldn't figure it out. Can't thank you enough.

[Manamama]

I have spent some time figuring this out, too.
In short:
rm -rf ~/.local/share/tts
should do the trick in Ubuntu.
Still the program needs to provide for such a check and an option do remove the broken download.

[SuperGoodGame]

I dont know how to reinstall it in linux ，can you tell me how to delete the error package and reinstall it？

[jp-x-g]

It goes without saying based on the comments that have been made here, but for reference, the actual error has nothing to do with the error message, or with a "model file not found in the output path" -- it happens when the model file is incomplete or corrupt for some reason (i.e. a download that was interrupted), and can be fixed by removing or renaming the folder for that model and re-downloading it.