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title, description, ha_category, ha_release, ha_domain
| title | description | ha_category | ha_release | ha_domain | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pico TTS | Instructions on how to setup Pico Text-to-Speech with Home Assistant. |
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0.36 | picotts |
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:
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
Configuration
To enable text-to-speech with Pico, add the following lines to your configuration.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 %}
Full configuration example
The configuration sample below shows how an entry can look like:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
- platform: picotts
language: 'fr-FR'