ValueError: n must be at least one
Author: ignacio82Created Dec 4, 2023Updated Aug 30, 2025
I'm trying to follow this tutorial and I'm getting an error when trying to do the reprocessing:
(.venv) ignacio@xps:~/piper/src/python$ python3 -m piper_train.preprocess --input-dir ~/test-ignacio/ --output-dir ~/out-train --language en-US --sample-rate 22050 --dataset-format ljspeech --single-speaker
INFO:preprocess:Single speaker dataset
INFO:preprocess:Wrote dataset config
INFO:preprocess:Processing 16 utterance(s) with 12 worker(s)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "/home/ignacio/piper/src/python/piper_train/preprocess.py", line 502, in <module>
main()
File "/home/ignacio/piper/src/python/piper_train/preprocess.py", line 225, in main
for utt_batch in batched(
File "/home/ignacio/piper/src/python/piper_train/preprocess.py", line 491, in batched
raise ValueError("n must be at least one")
ValueError: n must be at least one
I'm running ubuntu in case it is relevant. Any ideas for what am I doing wrong and how to fix it?
Source: rhasspy/piper