chore(deps): update piper-tts requirement from >=1.2.0 to >=1.7.0

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Updates the requirements on piper-tts to permit the latest version.

Release notes

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v1.7.0

• Add Japanese phonemizer using OpenJTalk (pyopenjtalk-plus) in the new ja extra
  • --data.phoneme_type japanese for training; "phoneme_type": "japanese" in a voice config for synthesis
  • espeak-ng has no kanji coverage (it reads out Unicode character names) and no pitch accent
  • Full-context labels are parsed for pitch accent and mapped to IPA, so Japanese voices stay compatible with the IPA-based (espeak) warmstart
• Add script/setup --ja, and install the ja extra in CI so the Japanese tests run
• libpiper: add piper_create_options and piper_create_with_options(), with piper_create() kept as a wrapper for ABI compatibility

Changelog

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1.7.0

• Add Japanese phonemizer using OpenJTalk (pyopenjtalk-plus) in the new ja extra
  • --data.phoneme_type japanese for training; "phoneme_type": "japanese" in a voice config for synthesis
  • espeak-ng has no kanji coverage (it reads out Unicode character names) and no pitch accent
  • Full-context labels are parsed for pitch accent and mapped to IPA, so Japanese voices stay compatible with the IPA-based (espeak) warmstart
• Add script/setup --ja, and install the ja extra in CI so the Japanese tests run
• libpiper: add piper_create_options and piper_create_with_options(), with piper_create() kept as a wrapper for ABI compatibility

1.6.1

• Run the g2pW model through piper.g2pw_onnx instead of g2pw.api, dropping torch (~750 MB installed) and requests from the zh extra
  • g2pw.api imports torch only to build padded tensors and iterate batches; the model itself already ran under onnxruntime
  • Also 1.5-2x faster, since it no longer forks DataLoader worker processes on every call
  • g2pW is still required, for its pinyin/bopomofo lookup tables

1.6.0

• Add Hebrew phonemizer using Nakdimon

1.5.0

• Add libpiper C++ CLI executable ported from the legacy Piper repository, plus a C++ test suite
• Fix libpiper builds on Windows (MSVC, MSYS2-GCC) and Windows CI
• Bump embedded espeak-ng version
• Add default speaker id for multi-speaker voices
• Add vowel clustering support (--data.vowel_clusters)
• Add in-memory patching for alignments
• Training: add MRD (Multi-Resolution STFT) discriminator, loss/MOS tracking with UTMOS, silence-trim fixes, and dataloader performance improvements
• Pass custom phoneme id map when training

1.4.2

• Fix pathvalidate dependency

1.4.1

• Add missing wheels

1.4.0

• Add Chinese phonemizer based on g2pW
  • Using a quantized version of the original model with quantize_dynamic
• Add --data.phoneme_type pinyin for Chinese phonemization using g2pW
• Add --data.phoneme_type text for using IPA phonemes directly (no espeak-ng)
• Add --model.vocoder_warmstart_ckpt <CHECKPOINT> to restore vocoder params only
• Add --data.dataset_type 'phoneme_ids' to train with pre-generated phoneme ids
  • Use --data.num_symbols <N> to set number of phonemes
  • Use --data.phonemes_path "/path/to/phonemes.json" for phoneme/id map
• Add --output-dir-naming option with timestamp (default) and text

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Commits

• 7b8e8f7 Merge pull request #275 from OHF-Voice/claude/version-1-7-0-release-2b37ec
• 222159f Silence pylint redefined-outer-name in the phonemizer tests
• af4ff76 Make the mypy exclude for vendored VITS code actually work
• c0f3289 Release 1.7.0: add --ja setup flag and test Japanese in CI
• 4ab2d74 Merge pull request #274 from OHF-Voice/synesthesiam-20260811-japanese
• 711b7b4 Refactor: introduce piper_create_options with same-name overloading (#270)
• 5a9a99d Bump version
• ae655b9 Merge pull request #269 from OHF-Voice/torch-free-g2pw
• 03ee769 Add license
• 677992e Run g2pW under onnxruntime without torch
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