| # :frog: TTS demo server | |
| Before you use the server, make sure you [install](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/tree/dev#install-tts)) :frog: TTS properly. Then, you can follow the steps below. | |
| **Note:** If you install :frog:TTS using ```pip```, you can also use the ```tts-server``` end point on the terminal. | |
| Examples runs: | |
| List officially released models. | |
| ```python TTS/server/server.py --list_models ``` | |
| Run the server with the official models. | |
| ```python TTS/server/server.py --model_name tts_models/en/ljspeech/tacotron2-DCA --vocoder_name vocoder_models/en/ljspeech/multiband-melgan``` | |
| Run the server with the official models on a GPU. | |
| ```CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0" python TTS/server/server.py --model_name tts_models/en/ljspeech/tacotron2-DCA --vocoder_name vocoder_models/en/ljspeech/multiband-melgan --use_cuda True``` | |
| Run the server with a custom models. | |
| ```python TTS/server/server.py --tts_checkpoint /path/to/tts/model.pth --tts_config /path/to/tts/config.json --vocoder_checkpoint /path/to/vocoder/model.pth --vocoder_config /path/to/vocoder/config.json``` | |