piper1-gpl

On macOS I've been using piper (https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl) to announce claude code notifications and it works perfectly!

I am using piper-tts ( https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl ) with these voice files for GLaDOS: https://huggingface.co/rokeya71/VITS-Piper-GlaDOS-en-onnx/tr... It is not perfect, but quite sufficient for simple system messages.

> Instantly convert text into natural-sounding speech using high-quality English voices. No sign-up required. Just type, select a voice, and listen or download your audio. Perfect for accessibility, content creation, and more. Also see: - https://basictts.com/about - https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl

I also just found something that sounds genuinely realistic: Piper (https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/tree/main). It's slow but apparently you can run it as a daemon to be faster, and it integrates with Home Assistant and Speech Dispatcher. $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip libsndfile1 ffmpeg $ python -m venv piper-tts $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/pip install piper-tts $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/python3 -m piper.download_voices en_US-lessac-medium $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/piper -m en_US-lessac-medium -- 'This will play on your speakers.' To manage the install graphically, you can use Pied (https://pied.mikeasoft.com/), which has a snap and a flatpak. That one's really cool because you can choose the voice graphically which makes it easy to try them out or switch voices. To play sound you just use "spd-say

Interesting because this empowers the user rather than making us the product - we need more of these use cases. The one thing that seems unfortunate is the choice of name: Piper is already in use in a fairly related area, as a text to speech tool: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl I usually think such concerns are lawyers being OTT because they raise them for any potential clash, even when it's clearly very distant and unrelated but something like this is software and heavily using speech, so the potential for the average person misunderstanding and assuming a connection is that much greater.