From 2f830921d9f32742607aca789b9544d9976069d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlos Garcia Saura Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 14:18:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Simplify picotts instructions - it is now preinstalled (#17468) Co-authored-by: Franck Nijhof --- source/_integrations/picotts.markdown | 13 ++----------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/_integrations/picotts.markdown b/source/_integrations/picotts.markdown index 51ccfc497d3..044e1e830fb 100644 --- a/source/_integrations/picotts.markdown +++ b/source/_integrations/picotts.markdown @@ -10,17 +10,8 @@ ha_platforms: - tts --- -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. - -On Debian Buster, the package is missing, use the following commands to install it: - -```bash -wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/s/svox/libttspico0_1.0+git20130326-9_armhf.deb -wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/s/svox/libttspico-utils_1.0+git20130326-9_armhf.deb -sudo apt-get install -f ./libttspico0_1.0+git20130326-9_armhf.deb ./libttspico-utils_1.0+git20130326-9_armhf.deb -``` +The `picotts` text-to-speech platform uses [Pico TTS library](https://github.com/naggety/picotts) to read out text with natural sounding voices. +Pico TTS is a powerful open-source engine that runs locally (cloudless) so it can work even without an internet connection. ## Configuration