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Google Translate text-to-speech

The google_translate text-to-speech platform uses the unofficial Google Translate text-to-speech engine to read a text with natural sounding voices. Contrary to what the name suggests, the integration only does text-to-speech and does not translate messages sent to it.

Configuration

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

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

Configuration Variables

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language string (Optional, default: en)

The default speech language to use.

tld string (Optional, default: com)

The default Google domain you want to use to choose dialect.

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 the URL when you click on the language name.

Check the complete list of supported tld for allowed TLD values. This is used to force the dialect used when multiple fall into the same 2-digit language code(i.e., US, UK, AU)

You can also use supported BCP 47 tags like the below or the 2-2 digit format for your supported dialect(en-gb or en-us). Below is a list of the currently implemented mappings:

Dialect Language TLD
en-us en com
en-gb en co.uk
en-uk en co.uk
en-au en com.au
en-ca en ca
en-in en co.in
en-ie en ie
en-za en co.za
fr-ca fr ca
fr-fr fr fr
pt-br pt com.br
pt-pt pt pt
es-es es es
es-us es com

Full configuration example

A full configuration sample including optional variables:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: google_translate
    language: "de"
    tld: com

Service say

The google_translate_say service supports language and also options for setting tld. The text for speech is set with message. Since release 0.92, the service name can be defined in the configuration service_name option.

Say to all media_player device entities:

# Replace google_translate_say with <platform>_say when you use a different platform.
service: tts.google_translate_say
data:
  entity_id: all
  message: "May the force be with you."

Say to the media_player.floor device entity:

service: tts.google_translate_say
data:
  entity_id: media_player.floor
  message: "May the force be with you."

Say to the media_player.floor device entity in French:

service: tts.google_translate_say
data:
  entity_id: media_player.floor
  message: "Que la force soit avec toi."
  language: "fr"

Say to the media_player.floor device entity in UK English:

service: tts.google_translate_say
data:
  entity_id: media_player.floor
  message: "May the force be with you."
  language: "en-uk"

service: tts.google_translate_say
data:
  entity_id: media_player.floor
  message: "May the force be with you."
  language: "en"
  options:
    tld: co.uk

With a template:

service: tts.google_translate_say
data:
  message: "Temperature is {{states('sensor.temperature')}}."
  cache: false

For more information about using text-to-speech with Home Assistant and more details on all the options it provides, see the TTS documentation.