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| layout | title | description | date | sidebar | comments | sharing | footer | logo | ha_category | ha_release |
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| page | VoiceRSS | Instructions on how to setup VoiceRSS TTS with Home Assistant. | 2016-12-13 07:00 | true | false | true | true | voicerss.png | Text-to-speech | 0.35 |
The voicerss text-to-speech platform uses VoiceRSS Text-to-Speech engine to read a text with natural sounding voices.
{% linkable_title Configuration %}
To enable text-to-speech with VoiceRSS, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
- platform: voicerss
api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
{% configuration %}
api_key:
description: The API Key for VoiceRSS.
required: true
type: string
language:
description: The language to use.
required: false
default: "en-us"
type: string
codec:
description: The audio codec.
required: false
default: mp3
type: string
format:
description: The audio sample format.
required: false
default: 8khz_8bit_mono
type: string
{% endconfiguration %}
Check the VoiceRSS API documentation for allow values.
{% linkable_title Full configuration example %}
The configuration sample below show how a entry can look like:
# 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'