Pico TTS


The picotts text-to-speech platform uses Pico TTS library to read out text with natural sounding voices. Pico TTS is a powerful open-source engine that runs locally (cloudless) so it can work even without an internet connection.

Configuration

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

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

Configuration Variables

language string (Optional, default: en-US)

The language to use. Supported languages are en-US, en-GB, de-DE, es-ES, fr-FR and it-IT.

Full configuration example

The configuration sample below shows how an entry can look like:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: picotts
    language: "fr-FR"