home-assistant.io/source/_components/tts.google.markdown

layout	title	description	date	sidebar	comments	sharing	footer	logo	ha_category	ha_release
page	Google Text-to-Speech	Instructions on how to setup Google Text-to-Speech with Home Assistant.	2016-12-13 07:00	true	false	true	true	google.png	Text-to-speech	0.35

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

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

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

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

{% configuration %} language: description: "The language to use." required: false type: string default: "en" {% endconfiguration %}

Check the complete list of supported languages (languages where "Talk" feature is enabled in Google Translate) for allowed values. Use the 2 digit language code which you can find at the end of url when you click on Language name.

{% linkable_title Full configuration example %}

A full configuration sample including optional variables:

# 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.