---
layout: page
title: "VoiceRSS"
description: "Instructions on how to setup VoiceRSS TTS with Home Assistant."
date: 2016-12-13 07:00
sidebar: true
comments: false
sharing: true
footer: true
logo: voicerss.png
ha_category: Text-to-speech
ha_release: 0.35
---

The `voicerss` text-to-speech platform uses [VoiceRSS](http://www.voicerss.org/) Text-to-Speech engine to read a text with natural sounding voices.

## {% linkable_title Configuration %}

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

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: voicerss
    api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
```

{% configuration %}
api_key:
  description: The API Key for VoiceRSS.
  required: true
  type: string
language:
  description: The language to use.
  required: false
  type: string
  default: "`en-us`"
codec:
  description: The audio codec.
  required: false
  type: string
  default: mp3
format:
  description: The audio sample format.
  required: false
  type: string
  default: 8khz_8bit_mono
{% endconfiguration %}

Check the [VoiceRSS API documentation](http://www.voicerss.org/api/documentation.aspx) for allowed values.

## {% linkable_title Full configuration example %}

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

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: voicerss
    api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
    language: 'de-de'
    codec: mp3
    format: '8khz_8bit_mono'
```

Please note, some media_players require a certain format. For example the Sonos requires a format of '44khz_16bit_stereo'