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Published 2 months ago • verified publisher icon micro-nova

Feature: Add integrated Text To Speech based announcements

Open linknum23 opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

Text to Speech would be a really nice integration for announcements. Right now it needs to happen externally to the announcement. Figuring out a simple way to integrate it into announcements would make them a lot more useful.

For supporting this in conjunction with something like the coral we would need to do the following:

  • [ ] Find TTS Neural net
  • [ ] Test with USB attached coral (stretch goal)
  • [ ] Add TTS field in announcement that is supported if attached

@Lohrer and @klay2000 thanks for the inspiration on this

linknum23 avatar Feb 09 '22 17:02 linknum23

Thanks really belong to @sepffuzzball in providing some possible uses for Home Assistant controlling AmpliPi https://github.com/micro-nova/AmpliPi/discussions/206#discussioncomment-2140029.

TTS anouncements would be awesome!

Lohrer avatar Feb 09 '22 17:02 Lohrer

One potential network: ~~https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech~~ https://github.com/mozilla/TTS . I wonder how much CPU it uses without a dedicated TPU?

linknum23 avatar Feb 09 '22 17:02 linknum23

A possible TTS implementation would be https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS. I tried installing with pip on a Pi but it failed, looks like we'll have to do a manual install due to some of the dependencies (at least torchaudio) not providing arm binaries.

Lohrer avatar Feb 09 '22 18:02 Lohrer