piper: exec format error on MacOS

[sammcj]

Howdy, there seems to be an issue with the piper binary:

./QuickPiperAudiobook readme.md                                                                                                                
New default configuration file created at /Users/samm/.config/QuickPiperAudiobook/config.yaml
No output value specified, default from config file: ~/Audiobooks
Using model specified in config file: en_US-hfc_male-medium.onnx
Installing piper...
Extracting piper...
2024/10/09 16:51:49 extracted tarball into /Users/samm/.config/QuickPiperAudiobook: 455 files, 39 dirs (843.384584ms)
Piper installed successfully.
Downloading en_US-hfc_male-medium.onnx to /Users/samm/.config/QuickPiperAudiobook/en_US-hfc_male-medium.onnx
Finished downloading successfully.
Downloading en_US-hfc_male-medium.onnx.json to /Users/samm/.config/QuickPiperAudiobook/en_US-hfc_male-medium.onnx.json
Finished downloading successfully.
Converting readme.md to the proper intermediary text format...
Text conversion completed successfully.
Converting your file to an audiobook... This may take a while!
|Error: failed to run piper command: fork/exec /Users/samm/.config/QuickPiperAudiobook/piper/piper: exec format error

• macOS 15.0.1
• M2 Max

[sammcj]

Oh I see what the problem is, looking through the source code it's hard coded to download an AMD64 version of Piper!

[sammcj]

I'll submit a PR

[C-Loftus]

Linking my comment in #10 for anyone else Interested.
To my understanding there are not proper MacOS builds for piper at the moment.

[TeemuKoivisto]

I stumbled upon this issue as well. Yeah it's probably a fool's errand to try to install either the binary or the Python package for ARM macs. I used this script https://github.com/dspasyuk/llama.cui/blob/main/piper_install_mac.sh to build it from the source and now it runs

[C-Loftus]

Looks like there may be a fix for this here: rhasspy/piper#678 but the maintainer needs to merge it. If anyone is interested in this, that would be a great thread to upvote for visibility!