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title: "Pico Text-to-Speech"
description: "Instructions on how to setup Pico Text-to-Speech with Home Assistant."
date: 2017-01-03 16:00
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ha_category: Text-to-speech
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The `picotts` text-to-speech platform uses offline pico Text-to-Speech engine to read a text with natural sounding voices.
This requires to install the pico tts library on the system, typically on debian just do `sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils`
On some Raspbian release, this package is missing but you can just copy the arm deb package from debian.

## {% linkable_title Configuration %}

To enable text-to-speech with Pico, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: picotts
```

{% configuration %}
language:
  description: "The language to use. Supported languages are `en-US`, `en-GB`, `de-DE`, `es-ES`, `fr-FR` and `it-IT`."
  required: false
  type: string
  default: "`en-US`"
{% endconfiguration %}

## {% linkable_title Full configuration example %}

The configuration sample below shows how an entry can look like:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: picotts
    language: 'fr-FR'
```
