home-assistant.io/source/voice_control/using_tts_in_automation.markdown

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Using Piper TTS in automations

This procedure shows you how to create a text-to-speech {% term action %}. For this, we use our local text-to-speech engine, Piper, and the media player {% term service %}. Home Assistant can then speak to you over your media player as part of an {% term automation %}.

1. Go to {% my automations title="Settings > Automations & Scenes" %}, and select Create automation.
2. Select Create new automation, then Add action.
3. From the drop-down menu, select Play media and select the media player you want to use for this automation.
4. Select Pick media, then, select Text-to-speech.
5. To use fully local text-to-speech processing, select Piper.
6. Enter the text you want to hear for this automation.
7. Your text-to-speech action is now ready to be used in your script or automation.
8. Save your action.