An alternative RVC implementation

Preface

I believe that everyone who surfs the Internet has the need to use a voice changer, whether it is to maintain anonymity, add fun, spice up life and other needs, so naturally there are many voice changing software and projects, some are open source and some are not. Yes, charged, etc.

Of course, I also have the need to use a voice changer, in every sense of the word. Just by chance, I discovered this good project

Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUI

It can run locally and train the model by itself. It is so natural to use that you can’t even hear the flaws. Of course, I also unpacked my favorite games and trained the model using the voices of the characters in them.

mozi1924/my_rvc_model · Hugging Face

However, this project has a fatal flaw, which is that it requires a lot of configuration. My laptop configuration is not very high, so I can’t use it when playing games. But coincidentally, I also have a computer, so I can Using another computer as a voice changer and a laptop for playing games doesn't kill two birds with one stone?

Tutorial: Getting Started

First, the computer configuration I used to run RVC is as follows

cpu: E5-2696V3

ram:DDR4 ECC 16G

128G NVME SSD

550W Power

x99 platform copycat motherboard

Tesla P40 24G

windows server 2022

My laptop is intel nuc x15 barebone lapkc71f

cpu:i7-11800H

gpu: rtx 3070 laptop

ddr4 16g

1t+2t nvme ssd

windows 11 pro

So how do we combine these two devices?

You need two aux audio cables

a usb sound card

These two little things will cost no more than 10$ at TEMU.

Next we connect the host and laptop

As shown in FIG

Then set the sound card's microphone as default and adjust the volume to 50%. Otherwise, your volume will be too loud and cause broken sound.

Then install a Voicemeeter on your laptopDownload link

And adjust as appropriate as shown in the figure

Among them, Input 1 is the microphone of your headset or the virtual microphone created by the noise reduction software, and HARDWAVE OUT is the output of the USB sound card you connect to the host.

After installing RVC on your host, please see the following picture:

Select line in as the input device, so that the input sound will not be too loud and the recognition rate will be higher.

Select the speaker as the output, and the sound will go to your USB sound card. Remember to turn down the microphone sound on your laptop, otherwise the sound will be too loud and cause broken sound. You can copy the rest of the configuration, provided that your host performance is better or the same as mine.

Then, enjoy the anonymity and fun that voice changer brings to you

Tips: If your environment is noisy or your microphone is poor, you can tryNVIDIA Broadcast

The premise is that you have an nvidia graphics card of rtx20xx series or above, otherwise, it will not work