[ISSUE] Unable to Install - ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'MeCab'

[indubwestep]

I tried installing mecab-python3 and unidic-lite using pip install but this did not change the outcome. How can I fix this error?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\venv\lib\site-packages\TTS\tts\utils\text\japanese\phonemizer.py", line 8, in <module>
    import MeCab
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'MeCab'

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\main.py", line 23, in <module>
    from webui.modules.implementations.tts_monkeypatching import patch as patch1
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\webui\modules\implementations\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    import webui.modules.implementations.ttsmodels as tts
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\webui\modules\implementations\ttsmodels.py", line 11, in <module>
    from TTS.api import TTS
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\venv\lib\site-packages\TTS\api.py", line 15, in <module>
    from TTS.utils.synthesizer import Synthesizer
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\venv\lib\site-packages\TTS\utils\synthesizer.py", line 10, in <module>
    from TTS.tts.configs.vits_config import VitsConfig
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\venv\lib\site-packages\TTS\tts\configs\vits_config.py", line 5, in <module>
    from TTS.tts.models.vits import VitsArgs, VitsAudioConfig
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\venv\lib\site-packages\TTS\tts\models\vits.py", line 33, in <module>
    from TTS.tts.utils.text.characters import BaseCharacters, BaseVocabulary, _characters, _pad, _phonemes, _punctuations
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\venv\lib\site-packages\TTS\tts\utils\text\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from TTS.tts.utils.text.tokenizer import TTSTokenizer
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\venv\lib\site-packages\TTS\tts\utils\text\tokenizer.py", line 5, in <module>
    from TTS.tts.utils.text.phonemizers import DEF_LANG_TO_PHONEMIZER, get_phonemizer_by_name
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\venv\lib\site-packages\TTS\tts\utils\text\phonemizers\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from TTS.tts.utils.text.phonemizers.ja_jp_phonemizer import JA_JP_Phonemizer
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\venv\lib\site-packages\TTS\tts\utils\text\phonemizers\ja_jp_phonemizer.py", line 3, in <module>
    from TTS.tts.utils.text.japanese.phonemizer import japanese_text_to_phonemes
  File "M:\audio-webui\audio-webui\venv\lib\site-packages\TTS\tts\utils\text\japanese\phonemizer.py", line 10, in <module>
    raise ImportError("Japanese requires mecab-python3 and unidic-lite.") from e
ImportError: Japanese requires mecab-python3 and unidic-lite.
Japanese requires mecab-python3 and unidic-lite.

[gitmylo]

This seems to be an issue with TTS, maybe something updated?
A possibly related pull request is coqui-ai/TTS#2776

[zxchcyc]

got the same issue. how to solve it?

[gitmylo]

I believe something's wrong with the new update of the TTS library, i can lock it to an older version for now.

[molander]

This seemed to be happening in my install yesterday due to the fact that I use conda and it got re-activated. Or maybe that's what allowed me to squeek through by changing my conda env to the install dir's venv, manually installing mecab-python3 and away it went. Awesome project btw, thanks!

[gitmylo]

Please tell me if this didn't fix it, it should get it to install TTS with the japanese "optional" requirements, which aren't actually optional since they're still imported.

[pacohernandezg]

I got the same issue. I solved with:

pip install mecab-python3
pip install unidic-lite

[dave-mitchell]

This install didn't fix it for me. I manually installed both packages installed and I'm still getting the error.

[gitmylo]

This install didn't fix it for me. I manually installed both packages installed and I'm still getting the error.

Make sure it's installed in your venv, not your global python

You can activate your venv by running:

• Windows: call venv\Scripts\activate.bat
• Linux/MacOS: source venv/bin/activate

Also, have they still not fixed the requirements?

[dave-mitchell]

Yes, I installed everything to my venv and the error still came up. I verified by trying to re-install and getting the "dependency already satisfied" output.

[gitmylo]

Yes, I installed everything to my venv and the error still came up. I verified by trying to re-install and getting the "dependency already satisfied" output.

Try installing TTS[ja]