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title, description, logo, ha_category, ha_release
| title | description | logo | ha_category | ha_release | |
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| VoiceRSS | Instructions on how to setup VoiceRSS TTS with Home Assistant. | voicerss.png |
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0.35 |
The voicerss text-to-speech platform uses VoiceRSS Text-to-Speech engine to read a text with natural sounding voices.
Configuration
To enable text-to-speech with VoiceRSS, add the following lines to your configuration.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 for allowed values.
Full configuration example
The configuration sample below shows how an entry can look like:
# 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'