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Erik-jan Riemers bf776b5ab3 Added a note about formats for mediaplayers (#2579)
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---
layout: page
title: "VoiceRSS"
description: "Instructions 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.
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: 'XXXXXXXX'
```
Configuration variables:
- **api_key** (*Requered*): API Key for use this service.
- **language** (*Optional*): The language to use. Defaults to `en-us`.
- **codec** (*Optional*): Audo codec. Default is 'mp3'.
- **format** (*Optional*): Audio sample format. Default is '8khz_8bit_mono'
See on api [documentation](http://www.voicerss.org/api/documentation.aspx) for allow values.
A full configuration sample:
```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
- platform: voicerss
api_key: 'XXXXX'
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'