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The google text-to-speech platform uses Google Text-to-Speech engine Text-to-Speech engine to read a text with natural sounding voices.

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

# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: google

Configuration variables:

A full configuration sample:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: google
    language: 'de'

If you are using SSL certificate or Docker, you may need to add the base_url configuration variable to your http component as follows:

#Example configuration.yaml entry
http:
  base_url: example.duckdns.org

The base_url configuration variable was added in 0.35.1, so make sure your Home Assistant version is 0.35.1 or above.